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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.

~George Will

Topics: Against Become Both Currency Euro Europe Europeans Expression Fiction Geographic Merely Most Political Rather Somehow Than Wishes

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The designs of the paper euros, introduced in 2002, proclaim a utopian aspiration. Gone are the colorful bills of particular nations, featuring pictures of national heroes of statecraft, culture and the arts, pictures celebrating unique national narratives. With the euro, 16 nations have said goodbye to all that.

~George Will

Topics: Arts Aspiration Bills Celebrating Colorful Culture Designs Euro Gone Goodbye Heroes Introduced Narratives National Nations Paper Particular Pictures Proclaim Said Unique Utopian

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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.

~George Will

Topics: Cultural Despair Euro European Expresses History Holocaust People Pleases Shakespeare Whom

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Indeed, the creators of the euro envisioned it as an instrument to promote political union.

~Gerhard Schroder

Topics: Creators Envisioned Euro Indeed Instrument Political Promote Union

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