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Cameron says Euro needs single government: report
Reuters ^ | Tue May 8, 2012 10:17pm EDT | (Reporting by Stephen Mangan; editing by Christopher Wilson)

Posted on 05/08/2012 11:44:25 PM PDT by Olog-hai

A successful eurozone requires a single government if it is to work properly, British Prime Minister David Cameron said in a newspaper interview on Wednesday.

"There's nowhere in the world that has a single currency without having more of a single government," Cameron told Britain's Daily Mail.

"Making sense of the euro for me would mean that those eurozone countries would have to have much more coordinated economic policy, much more coordinated debt policy," he said.

Cameron, who opted out of a new European economic pact late last year, advocated Britain's position outside the euro and its ability "to do things to ourselves, for ourselves, by ourselves." …

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: davidcameron; euro; europeanunion; eussr
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To: Caulkhead

Whose side are you on?


21 posted on 05/09/2012 1:59:12 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: RaisingCain

Does it now? Then why is his solution to give them everything they’re dreaming of?


22 posted on 05/09/2012 2:00:15 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

“Whose side are you on?”

The side of those who can read and understand written English.

Cameron is clearly explaining why the euro can never work by explaining that in order for it to do so, impossible things need to happen.


23 posted on 05/09/2012 2:19:37 PM PDT by Caulkhead
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To: Caulkhead

Oh; I thought you were on the side of tyrants. My bad. Please explain how Cameron’s “explanation” that giving the euro elites everything they want will be a solution that benefits anyone, then. (Because it isn’t impossible.)


24 posted on 05/09/2012 2:23:09 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: sheik yerbouty
He's exactly the opposite.

Cameron wants the UK to remain out of the Euro because the Euro will eventually require abrogation of national governments.

25 posted on 05/09/2012 2:36:25 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: Mr. Lucky

The euro is just one of many tools that they intend to use for that purpose. You signed up to any of those treaties, they got a tool for that.


26 posted on 05/09/2012 10:04:21 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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