The statistics might have a Eurosceptic cast, but they are not exactly a fun read. Few of us want to wade through ONS graphs or European Commission tables.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The presidency of the Euro group is an interesting and important task.
If the euro zone doesn't come up with a comprehensive vision of its own future, you'll have a whole range of nationalist, xenophobic and extreme movements increasing across the European Union. And, frankly, questions about the British debate on EU membership will just be a small sideshow compared to the rise of political populism.
The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a political rather than a merely geographic expression.
The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair.
In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence.
While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest in the spirit.
I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.
There have been major disagreements within the European Union.
I read 'Time', 'Newsweek' and 'The Economist'.
Chances are the movements of the euro as against the dollar will be relatively moderate.
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