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Article: Death knell for the euro (and the crisis that could even destroy the EU).
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- October 10, 2008
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Byline: Christopher Booker
AT THE very moment when Europes banking system is teetering on the edge of collapse and national economies are in freefall, we might, perhaps, have expected the EU finally to live up to its more grandiose pretensions as the government of Europe.
Yet what have we seen by way of the EUs response to what is undoubtedly the most testing crisis in its history?
A few perfunctory fine words and empty gestures and then the national leaders flapping off like so many headless chickens to pursue their own national interests, regardless of all those laws and principles which in easier times they were apparently so happy to sign up to.
The truth ...