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December 8, 2011
Madhavi Acharya-Tom Yew, Toronto Star
3 December 2011
“The European union is a response to Europe’s violent history. The initial hope was that by tying the economies of Germany and France together you would never have a war again. The euro was the crowning achievement to all this,” said Jeffrey Kopstein, a political science professor at the University of Toronto.
“The beauty of the euro appeared to be that you didn’t have to talk about the history. All you had to talk about was the technicalities of how to do it. And that was fine so long as everything was going well.”