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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.

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George Will
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: May 4
Columnist
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Champaign
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George F. Will
George Frederick Will
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