Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-12-15-Speech-1-025"
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"Mr President, as the world faces an economic downturn of unknown proportions, the value of the pound sterling is falling against the dollar and the euro. But the ability of the pound to adjust itself against other currencies is a benefit not enjoyed by members of the European single currency.
Civil unrest and rioting has broken out in Greece. The Greek writer, Mimis Androulakis, has said: ‘There is a deep dissatisfaction among young people today against the structure of Europe. We cannot reduce the price of the euro to give us an advantage in exports’.
Membership of the EU and the euro has led to increased living costs in Greece, and the younger generation fear that their future is one of poverty. The European Union is an ideological project being forced upon European peoples who would rather live in democratic nation states. The price of political ideology is always human misery."@en1
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