You write about how the uro as an economic project means that the countries which are members of it have no monetary sovereignty. So is there an issue then, when these essentially technocratic supernational projects like the european union, fail to take these things into account? I think the crucial question with the ura zone is really now about whether there can be a fiscal union. It's when the urizone needs to tax its citizens in a collective sense, in order to support each other's erm debt, that this issue of whether people really sufficiently identify and are willing to make sacrifices for their fellow citizens comes into play.
Helen Thompson is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge, a columnist for The New Statesman, and has been a regular contributor to the Talking Politics podcast. Her new book, Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century, looks at decades of geopolitical history that have fed into our current moment: one of war and conflict, nations competing for dwindling natural resources, and the climate emergency casting a long shadow. She joins journalist and author Andrew Mueller to discuss how we got here.
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