George Will deconstructs the advent of the Euro:

The common currency serves the political objective of changing Europe’s civic discourse by supplanting political reasoning with economic calculation. The euro is an instrument for producing a European superstate, which requires erasing from the nations’ populations their national identities, which means their distinctive memories. Here we go again, yet another European campaign against ‘false consciousness,’ this time meaning patriotism.

“The euro is part of Europe’s attempt to be great without being anything in particular,” Will concludes. “Call it euro-utopianism.”

Indeed.

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