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plugs the flow of drugs to kill us in. the u.s. on faces an uncertain future with the e.u. leaders struggling to reach an accord on how to solve the ongoing economic problems we discussed the efforts with an e.p. from the united kingdom that discussion is now. well today we're joined by conservative any please mr daniel hannan thank you very much for joining us first question that everyone is asking is where do you see the eurozone headed well we can now see very clearly that the euro is a recessionary instrument it's making people poorer it's causing deflation and emigration in the southern states is causing tax rises in the northern states if we were looking at this completely logically we would immediately move towards an orderly unbundling of the single currency but of course the european union is not

looking at it logically they come at this with so much political capital and actual capital invested that they can't bring themselves to admit that it was a mistake and so i'm afraid we risk the very thing they purport to fear which is a disorderly breakup of the euro caused by having tried to keep it together for too long an orderly break up is that really the cheaper and least painful option here i mean there are those that would argue that a breakup would be the more expensive option but do you think there are no good options from here there are no easy outcomes when you are looking at states with the level of debt that some of the e.u. member states have so we're dealing with lesser evils but there is no question that allowing each country to return to its own currency to start pricing its way back into the market exporting its way back to growth is less bad for all that the maybe some. short term uncontainable transitional costs is less valid than carrying on with the current crisis while december ninety e.u.

leaders agreed most of them at least agreed to move on into forming a fiscal compact and the u.k. used its veto to prevent any treaty changes so that when it comes to those who are saying that the u.k. probably will have less influence now in making decisions in the e.u. wouldn't it have been better if the u.k. had just got on board with the rest with this was the argument of course. that we were given when the euro was launched in the first place you have to be part of it or you'll lose all the influence you know the city of london will decline and so well look who was right you know i mean look there is nothing less attractive in politics and saying i told you so but there is as you know there's one thing less attractive and that is listening to the same discredited arguments from the same shameless politicians who got it wrong so. badly wrong ten years ago and who are now trotting out exactly the same logic what else has to happen before they accept that their logic was flawed all wish logic is flawed do you think the economic or political logic mainly the impossibility of jamming widely divergent economies

into a single exchange rate and a single interest rate there is also a democratic cost it's not only a political cost last month we saw crews in two e.u. member states initially as in greece elected prime ministers with shuffles in favor of euro structures were trying to leave from europe in remission and a former vice president of the european central bank says they had what are called national governments but the governments have been put together for the sole purpose of pushing through an agenda that would be rejected at a general election so that we see the if you like the anti democratic tendencies that were always there implicitly in the eurozone we now see them explicitly apparatchiks in brussels deal directly with apparatchiks in athens and in rome the people and their representatives have been cut off altogether all the e.u. is still continuing to look for help from outside the european union outside of the

euro zone for money to beef up their f.s.f. to. those mechanisms to help the bailouts of the euro zone countries as well as the i.m.f. what do you think of this measure of trying to look for help from the outside will it actually help solve the problem i mean this is this is treating a debt crisis with more debt. you don't help an indebted friend by pushing more loans on him when a country can't meet its existing liabilities it's crazy to extend those liabilities we should move towards a. partial orderly default in countries which simply can't meet their debts and an agreed separation of the of the eurozone so you're saying that a euro collapse is the only solution here the collapse of the euro will be the beginning of a solution or use the end of the euro as it currently stands will be the beginning of a solution but the real solution will come when there is

a proper devolution of power so that decisions are taken more closely to the people that they affect and if you if you look at one of the really successful prosperous countries in the world the little ones the hong kong's the swiss saloons lichtenstein's the channel islands the monaco's the brunei's you know now you can say oh well they're all tax havens that's making the question they became tax havens because they had low tax why did they have low taxes because they had the small state advantage without the duplication without the big government and if you want a simple explanation for why the european union is falling behind further and further in the world economy that's it and the european union would argue that because of these projects they are in fact helping the growth expansion and progress of member states of the european union do you think the good does outweigh the bad in this case if he you funds were the way to growth greece would now be the richest country in the union and germany would now be the poorest. and crowds would be marching furiously in kiel in hamburg and duesseldorf protesting about the greek loans right

. just as with individuals so with entire states if you become dependent on subsidies from somewhere else that subsequent reprise you start perfectly rationally early ranging your affairs around qualifying for the grounds instead of creating wealth and this is the trend. city of the recipient countries the best and brightest people in those countries the entrepreneurs the people who could have done so much making things inventing things selling things creating businesses in their home states because nothing can compete with the advantages of being on the e.u. payroll they all start gravitating towards either directly to brussels bureaucracy or in directly becoming contractors or consultants dependent on loans we in the contributor countries grumble about it but the real pain is felt in the recipient countries and one of the recently approved budgets is for the acquisition of new buildings for the european parliament for example do you think this spending is justified and necessary i mean you know how crazy at

a time like this when everybody i mean you know in every member state people are looking at how to trim budgets you know do they do they really need two cars can they find a cheaper mobile phone operator all of my constituents are making these decisions we're all seeing a real decline in living standards and the european union is why easily fire rose these of millions and hundreds of millions of euros and visitors centers and museums and you know more entertainment allowances for commissioners and you know extraordinary my favorite story of the last commission was that. herman van rompuy and manuel barroso flew to the same summit in russia in separate private jets leaving brussels within four hours of each other in austerity is for the street sweeper and sluggo for the classroom assistant in corfu it's not for the euro project you've been an m.e.p. for about twelve years now what do you know now that you didn't know before when we

joined the european union we thought it would be a common market that was the phrase that people used and if pushed what we meant by common market was mutual product recognition that if i can sell a bottle of mineral water and person i should be lopsided in france or germany and vice versa. what we found instead is that it's a highly regulated market so you find that in order to sell a bottle of mineral water the bottle has to contain the following minerals but not any of these you know the volume has to be not greater than x. and not less than why the water has to comprise the following elements you can then find that even a bottle of mineral water that was never intended for export that is only consumed within a very small radius of where it's bottled can fall foul of the e.u. regulations and be declared illegal and so instead of getting a common market we have the opposite we have a restricted market where instead of being extended consumer choice is diminished so following your train of thought here are you saying that

a european union can exist in current form for example if only it decentralizes power instead of consolidating it it wouldn't exist in anything like its present form i mean in one hundred seventy three which was the year that the united kingdom joined western europe was thirty six percent of world g.d.p. today it's twenty five percent and twenty twenty will be fifteen percent why is that the main constraint on a big inefficient government is international competition. you can raise your taxes up to a certain point and then the money starts going abroad to friendly jurisdictions and you have to crush it and you can bestow incredibly generous entitlements on your workforce maternity leave and paternity leave in a forty eight hour maximum we can go up to a certain point then the jobs start relocating but the european union gets you out of that problem it obviates the challenge of external competition it allows you to export your costs. to your rivals and you could just about see the rationale for

that fifty years ago when the main competition was coming from greece it is of course ridiculous when the main competition is coming from india china and so on and that's why the european union through this policy of centralization of harmonize ation of uniformity has. itself to economic in significance of this being a euro skeptic what are the advantages that you see of the european being part of it the one thing the one thing that the european union has done. is it has a major impossible. the secret diplomacy on any given day in brussels will be a meeting of agriculture ministers will transport minister is it doesn't even make a press release and i would such a normal thing for that to be happening so that is a good thing we should be talking together that we should be collaborating on matters that we can't achieve singly and we should be arbitrating i'll just use these things no one is going to disagree without which i have that big you really don't need all the rest you don't need the bureaucracy you don't need the common

agricultural policy you don't need the common fisheries policy you don't need the euro all of the rest is not only irrelevant to that gold it is actively harmful to it because as we now see the extent of integration far from spreading peace and goodwill in europe has had the effect it's actually increased national antagonisms to a greater level than they've been up since the second world war so many of the leaders right now who still want to forge the e.u. and the hero in its current form especially german chancellor angela merkel she has equated the survival of the euro and to the survival of peace what's your take on that the e.u. is a consequence rather than a cause of peace and you are the idea now that peace in europe depends on these massive bureaucracies in brussels is crazy in europe is maintained by trade by friendship and above all by the fact that we are now liberal democracies rather than north or tearing countries thank you.

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hello welcome to the latest sports and here at the top stories. fighting talk chelsea and england captain john terry vows to clear his name after police charged him with racially abusing q.p.r. defender anton ferdinand. while also giving both luis suarez well appeal against his eight match ban and fined for racist remarks made to manchester united the tree separate. and unbeaten army ends the year only regular season in style ten wins from stand after victory of a pony in spain. chelsea and england captain john terry has vowed to fight tooth and nail to prove his innocence after being charged with racially abusing q.p.r. defender anton ferdinand also if you want your old son to haul for appear in court on february the first overtime see verbal abuse twenty six year old ferdinand

during the blues one will defeat at loftus road on october the twenty third police suppressed charges after receiving a complaint from a member of the public only found guilty terry could face a fine of up to four thousand dollars although his manager and they be of course says the club will continue to support him and the skipper will lead the blues in this thursday's crunch london derby at tottenham. he has my my full support he has the club's full support. represents this club to a maximum level and. we have very grateful to have a player of his quality. you know what he represents in terms of history and achievements here within the club. we know exactly he's human values and his personality. so well for supporting whatever the outcome well meanwhile liverpool striker luis suarez will appeal against his eight match ban and sixty two thousand dollars fine the english f.a.

found the year of wind. of racially abusing manchester united's patrice evra on the one one draw downfield on october the fifteenth suarez did play in the reds goalless draw a week in a wednesday night and his team mates more t. shirts with the space on them to show their support. meanwhile it's match to city who leave the table this christmas for the first time since one thousand nine hundred twenty nine roberto mancini side won three in a time to strive to stay two points clear of manchester united who kept up the pressure on the top and pulled back suddenly with goal difference gap with a fight triumph that followed robin van persie netted his thirty fourth goal of the calendar year as also one to want to aston villa west brom hung on for a three two victory at stuttering newcastle martin o'neill made it still wins from three a sunderland also defeated cheaply all three to everton edged swanzy one nil but it's city who holds the psychological and the points lead. but i am happy to say. i met before i was bored because that. is most

a back door what they say to you many times i think it is important to stay in the end though this is and for these there is difficult because they are not going to have to win every game so. we know it's another thought going on but is better to stay on the top of that circle. well as we mentioned earlier third place tottenham host fourth placed chelsea in a key london darby this thursday night spurs could go back to it in seven points of manchester city and still have a game in hand if they beat the visiting blues but despite their second best ever run this season the top manager harry redknapp reckons it will be a close game. which is a very tight game you know between two two good teams and. here we have come a long way for sure you know a few years ago we would be certainly talking about. you know an even game if you do it between us and chelsea and it looks at the moment to be evenly matched.

while over in spain last line are aiming to reach the last sixteen of the copper del rey with victory at home to third division side with a lead pep guardiola side holds a one will lead from the first leg from neighboring minnows but he will rest several key players after sunday's four nil club world cup triumph over brazilian champions santos that victory means boss i have now won thirteen out of a possible sixteen trophies and even the rail madrid coach gary marino suggested that last achievement was minor audio to believe it will benefit the club. said yesterday as a compliment we thank you and that's all each worked on for all my reach coach this is highlighted by the media way too much we were likely to played lucky to win it we are happy and i think that the fact that a spanish team can win this cop is a positive feeling and that is all. well meanwhile just like manchester city in england the french league's big spenders paris sanjay man will enjoy life the top

of the table this christmas the capital club twenty three points clear of most bellyache following a one male victory a sense that the end of record signing have you the story made a good job of a decent chance but not swiftly made up for the argentinians blip just after half an hour on the home side well they went all action search of an equaliser in the second half but the s.t. held firm to hang on to their narrow it down to which one will take the out right lead in the lead off the money lost for two with a view yet in the day. well meanwhile the russian national team will play two time world cup winners uruguay in their final friendly match before the start of the european championships next summer they got because men will face the south american side even moscow on may the twenty fifth and would then head to a week long training camp in switzerland before the tournament starts in poland and ukraine on june eighth russia will play in one other friendly before the tournament

which is away to denmark on february the twenty nine. now in other news boxer floyd mayweather has been sentenced to ninety days in jail for assaulting an ex-girlfriend the five division world champion admitted hitting his former apartment josie harris during an argument at her home last year mayweather was also ordered to pay a two and a half thousand dollar fine and complete one hundred hours of community service thirty four year old agreed to a plea deal meaning he will not have to answer a felony charges beating the cyrus and threaten two of their children. basketball now tesco moscow have completed the year only greg in a season unbeaten for the second time the army men were the first love to do so six years ago and that ninety one points to eighty three win over any car in spain again gave the muscovite side ten wins from ten in group b. this got scored within seconds of the tipoff and that sets the tone. game which they dominated milosz they'll search chipping in eighteen points for the visitors

young men were already guaranteed a place in the last sixteen but i was determined to keep up the unbeaten run and we're going to decide to beat getting into the next round. what else well fellow russians i don't excuse are also finished off their regular season in style tyrrel lie day. to a sixty three seventy six roger. and sylvia. qualifying from third spot in crete day meanwhile finished bottom of the table the civilian side ending up looking worse in last place in the end of the season just one victory ninety six . to i second and you could have pushed their sixth consecutive victory in the k h l after coming from behind to into on a spot at moscow the siberian team only joined the elite league last year and they're already causing quite

a stir for one closer effort courts. ice hockey club you grow up from siberian city of compliments east was founded in two thousand and six and spent the next four years glowing its way into russia's elite and its ricky cage show year did see which was certainly lacking in star power still managed to end the regular season in center place at twenty five for the playoffs and first attempt though you greg was not the culprits for finals in twenty ten hunger for postseason action is evidently as strong as ever. but we have a very tall snit's world which is vital for a team without any so-called star players and it was proved last year when our okies and made it into the k.h. and playoffs which despite a slow start this season for various reasons we're back on track and we will be fighting for a whole season qualification again in their latest match hugh grant managed to come from behind and defeats. moscow to record their six successive victory said berens

now sits in the middle of the cage while standings the league by four in better shape than their wednesday opponents the posted their fourth loss in a row obviously i'm really happy with the score we stuck to our game plan and we worked hard and we were able to come back there again in a game so it's a victory point for us danny groupies you draw us canadian import was signed with the same period less than a couple of months ago though his november debut was more brain injury the defender got back into action in almost no time in order to continue helping his team get to the coveted playoffs it's a work in progress we've been playing well lately i think we haven't lost in five so i mean we're definitely headed the right way and hopefully we can go in and get ready for the playoffs you grass' rosser is by no means star studded however even this regular season match against spartak moscow showed that this idea inside is capable of reaching new heights on pure passion and character. ramon cossar of

archie moscow. and finally only a select few all immortalizing prongs while they're still alive. legend cheyne warne has just joined that elite one of the greatest bone as a full time was present in the flesh at the invading of his statue of champions in one cricket ground war and is a former record holder for most of it's taken five hours in test cricket tally was an incredible seven hundred night at forty saying he still takes the pitch but only in a domestically born is everything i let them astray in sports want to be discovered was such an honor and was lost for words. but looks fantastic it's very very good so i was very proud it's a grind on us was sort of weird seeing yourself up there but it's a very good likeness and very proud of it. so that's all those postings by for that .

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