Is the European dream over?

Friday, December 09, 2011

NEW YORK - Were the Euroskeptics right after all? Was the dream of a unified Europe - inspired by fears of another European war, and sustained by the idealistic hope that nation-states were obsolete and would give way to good Europeans - a utopian dead end?

On the surface, Europe's current crisis, which some people predict will tear apart the European Union, is financial.

Jacques Delors, one of the architects of the euro, now claims that his idea for a single currency was good, but that its "execution" was flawed, because the weaker countries were allowed to borrow too much.

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