as the euro zone faces an uncertain future with evil leaders struggling to reach an accord on how to solve economic problems we discuss the efforts with an m.e.p. from the u.k. interview coming up. 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 i mean 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 sheep or at 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 bad than carrying on with the current crisis on december ninth the 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. would 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 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 no there's one thing less attractive and that is listening to the same discredited arguments from the same shameless politicians who got it wrong who got this 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 were toppled in favor of bureaucrats just trying to leave home years 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 out all together all the e.u. is still continuing to look for help from outside of the european union outside of the euro zone for money to beef up their. 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 and 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. a partial orderly default in countries which simply can't meet that debt 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 you see 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 of monaco's the brunei's you know now you could 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 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's some sort of prize you start perfectly rationally arranging your affairs around qualifying for the grounds instead of creating wealth and this is the tragedy 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 because they all start gravitating towards either directly the 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 budget. it's for the acquisition of new buildings for the european parliament for example do you think the 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 budget to 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 like either me fire rose these of millions and hundreds of millions of euros or 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. manual barroso flew to the same summit in russia in separate private jets leaving brussels within four hours of each other and austerity is for the street sweeper in sluggo for the classroom assistant in corfu it's not for the you're a problem 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 absolute 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 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 decentralizes power

instead of consolidating 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 in twenty twenty will be fifteen percent why is that the main constraint. 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 cut 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 consigned itself to economic and significance of the. skeptic what are the advantages that you see european part of it the one thing the one thing that the european union has done is it has made it impossible. the secret diplomacy on any given day in brussels will be a meeting of agricultural ministers of 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 the skills no one is going to disagree with that but i have that 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 goal but 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 since the second world war now many of the leaders right now. it's 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 in europe the idea now that peace in europe depends on these massive bureaucracies in brussels is crazy. by trade by friendship and above all by the fact that we are now liberal democracies rather than tearing countries thank you carol.

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russia needs to mocker see but not chaos president medvedev outlines the primary challenges for russia saying the country is on the brink of a new political era where every voice will be heard. arab league observers arrive in syria as the conflict there reaches a bloody peak and international sanctions cause living to conditions to deteriorate . and tightening the noose around america's controversial death penalty the e.u. stems the flow of drugs used to kill u.s. death row inmates. the latest in the world of sports coming your way next with kate stay with us.

welcome to the sports and here's what's coming up. fighting talk just anyone counting john terry ballots to clear his name after police charged him with racially abusing q.p.r. defender anton ferdinand. while also liverpool here suarez will appeal against his eight match ban and fine for racist remarks made tonight a victory several. rounds on the right boxing world champion floyd mayweather faces three months in jail for assaulting his ex-girlfriend. but first chelsea in 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 and son ferdinand that you want you all said to hof will appear in court on february the first over claims he virtually abused twenty six year old ferdinand during the blues one nil defeat at loftus road on october twenty third at least

pressed charges after receiving a complaint from a member of the public while i found guilty terry could face a fine of up to four thousand dollars although his monitor under a bridge bust says the club will continue to support him and the skipper will lead the blues in this thursday's crunch london dobby at tottenham. he has moved my full support he has the club's full support. represents this call to a maximum level and. we are 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. as you move all these and his personality. so well for supporting whatever the outcome. and in the meantime liverpool striker luis suarez will appeal against his eight match ban and sixty two thousand dollars fine the english f.a. found the euro one guilty of racially abusing manchester united's patrice evra in the. door downfield on october the fifteenth so did play in the reds goalless draw

at wigan on wednesday night and his teammates wore t. shirts with his face on them to show their support well it's match the city or leave the table this christmas for the first time since the one nine hundred twenty nine roberto mancini's side won three in a lot of time to stoke to stay two points clear of manchester united who kept up the pressure on the top and pulled back some of the goal difference gassed with a five triumph at full and elsewhere robin van persie netted here's the thirty fourth goal of the here is awesome i want to want to tax the velour west brom hung on for a three two victory at stuttering newcastle martin o'neill made his team wins from three sunderland also defeated q.p.r. three two one everton x. one is even one nil but it's city who holds the psychological and the points lead. i made before i was at the. back so what they say to you. that is important. for this.

is difficult because we never. got going on but it's better to stay on the top of that circle. well as we said so why start them host fourth place chelsea in a key london dobby this thursday night spurs could go back to within 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 top manager harry redknapp reckons it will be a close game. for you which is a very choice you know between two two good teams and. here we have come a long way for sure you know a few years ago we will be sitting here talking about. you know and even game if you do it between us and chelsea and looks at the moment to be evenly matched teams i would say but meanwhile over in spain barcelona are aiming to reach the last sixteen of the copper del rey with victory at having two third division side

hospital at pep guardiola side holds a one merely for the first leg from the neighboring minnows but he will rest several key players after sunday's club world cup triumph over santos boss i have now won thirteen out of a possible sixteen trophy is found even though railway track coach josie marino suggested there whilst last achievement was minor quadea thinks it would benefit the club. to embody and. said it yesterday as a compliment with 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 and lucky to win it we're 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 big spenders paris social now enjoying life at the top of the table this christmas the capital club when three point zero home pay a one zero victory a sound that you record so i have the best story made a poor job of

a decent chance that's not to bother them swiftly made up for the argentinians blip just after half an hour the home side went all out in search of an equaliser in the second half but still held to narrow it down. each one will take out right leader in the league after one lost fourteen with a view earlier in the day. while back here in russia a national football team will play two time world cup winners you're a guy in their final friendly match before the start of the european championships next summer together because many will face the south american side good moscow on may the twenty fifth and will then head to a week long training camp in switzerland for the tournament starts in poland and ukraine until the eighth russian will play in one of the friendly before the tournament which is a way to denmark on february twenty ninth. now in other news world champion boxer floyd mayweather jr has been sentenced to ninety days in jail for assaulting his ex-girlfriend the five division champion admitted hitting his former partner 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 with thirty four year old agreed to a plea deal meaning he will not have to answer a felony charges of beating ms harris and threaten to their children. basketball now and his gun was going to have completed the euro league regular season unbeaten for the second time the army men were the first club to complete the feat six years ago and their ninety one points to eighty three when a uni car in spain again gave the muscovite side ten wins from ten in group b. scored within seconds of the tip off that set the tone for the game which they dominated the last chipping in eighteen points for the visitors the army men were already guaranteed a place in the last sixteen but they were just trying to keep their run going and to group the side to be going into the next round.

now reigning world and european champion has fought back from a slow start to grab the preliminary lead at the halfway point of the russian all round speed skating championships here in moscow the twenty eight year old had to settle for second best in the opening five hundred meter event then went one better in the five thousand meters to inch closer to retaining his crown the national tournament is a chance for the skaters to qualify for next year's european championships however will discover their wants to sit out the continental event as he wants to focus on the defense of his world title due in moscow next february while on the women's side we've got that i love she also lived up to her status of tournament favorite songs better as prevailed in the five hundred and three thousand meters lead the standings to more events to go. to ice hockey now and new boys you get i have

posted there six straight victory in the k h l after coming from behind win two one spartak moscow the siberian team reached the playoffs in their first season last year and they hope to go one better this campaign a lot closer of reports. ice hockey club you grow up from siberian city of country months 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 that scene which was certainly lacking in star power still managed to end the regular season in center place and qualifying for the playoffs on first attempt though you grow was knocked out from conference quarter finals in twenty days and hunger for postseason action is evidently as strong as ever. we have a very close knit squalled which is vital for a team without any so-called star players and it was proved last year when the rockies and made it into the k.h. out playoffs despite a slow start this season for various reasons we're back on track and will be fighting for postseason qualification again in their latest match you grant managed

to come from behind and defeat sports like moscow to record their six successive victory said berens now sits in the middle of the cage shell standings by four in better shape than their wednesday opponents who 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 here the end of the game so it's a victory point for us danny grew as you grow us canadian import who signed with siberians 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 games now so i mean we're are definitely headed the right way and hopefully we can go in and get ready for the playoffs you grass' roster is by no means star studded

however even this regular season match against spartak moscow showed that the siberian side is capable of reaching new heights on pure passion and character. on cossar of our city. moscow. and finally only a select few are immortalized in bronze while they're still alive and australian cricket legend shane warne has just joined that elite one of the greatest bono's of all time was present in the flesh at the unveiling of his statue on the parade of champions cricket ground where he is the former record holder for most wickets taken by about it and test cricket at an impressive tally of seven hundred a night now forty two he still takes out a pitch like just in the domestic me one is i maybe eleven for australian sports going to be started with such an honor and he was flattered by the result. but looks fantastic it's very very good so i was dog very proud it's a great on ice was sort of weird seeing yourself up there but it's a very good lochness and very proud of it. that's all the sport by for.

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