talks to political analyst and sociologist jack goldstone who explains how the e.u. and the us could return to passive economic growth. under the rug. we should not iran to cut the budget bring the troops home we should end the war in afghanistan. let's. i mean so the only city in europe i'm the host of the twenty fourteen winter the picket. sign see. a. tsotsi. bank the. way a. dog days or. the fridays it. makes common. to see it's so true. well. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. jack goldstone a us writer around sociologist specializing in many things including global population trends and also the cultural origins of economic growth it's great to have you with us here today thank you now even before the year inception some skeptics were coming out and putting out arguments on why the euro wouldn't function and decides to economic arguments to were also saying the cultural differences were the huge problem between the different you states saying that labor habits are different spending and sav

jack goldstone a us writer around sociologist specializing in many things including global population trends and also the cultural origins of economic growth it's great to have you with us here today thank you now even before the year were inception some skeptics were coming out and putting out arguments on why the euro wouldn't function and besides to economic arguments to were also saying the cultural differences were the huge problem between the different you states saying that labor habits are different spending and saving practices are different and many other reasons so how much of all of this is actually playing in to the economic and political divide that we're seeing right now in the european union the euro was invented really as part of a program to overcome nationalism where nationalism is perhaps an excessive attachment to some of those cultural differences that you mentioned the problem with the euro i don't think lies in the cultural differences it lies in the lack of a unified institutional framework for banking and financial decision making but have the problems with t

and later this hour our team talks to political analyst and sociologist jack goldstone on what the e.u. leaders are doing wrong and where the euro policies could ultimately lead to. your essential a has a double problem they have how do we get southern european and northern european economies to move in the same direction and for that i think the answer is don't pursue our sturdy pursue growth and then there's a second problem of once countries are all moving in the same direction can you fix the european financial system and create united structures so that this problem doesn't appear again as it may appear in the next economic difficulty if the current division among national financial systems isn't isn't fixed. the central voting commission in ukraine has a span accounting until monday due to reported disorders in several polls the opposition's claiming the election has been blatantly rigged by the ruling party the election has also been overshadowed by scuffles between supporters of the opposition and police across the country clashes were also reported from be election commission

. >> i disagree on that last point jack and goldstone over at george mason has a thesis about this that what he calls the regime even if they are not to call an effect like the al-assad and syria they don't have the historical legitimacy that they have in the gulf and the region and larocco so they don't call themselves monarchies and are more fragile whereas the monarchies have more of a potential than what mohammed vi has more of the potential of making the sorts of concessions and feeding the sort of partial political power to the popular forces while still being on the throne, and the biggest most recent change that they made was to see an awful lot of power to basically the government representing an elected assembly. but he is still sitting more or less happily in his seat at the camp. >> the united states has strategic interest and ideological interests come sometimes difficult to pursue them both at the same times. the ideological interest in the long term is to be favored more popular participation. but how much strategic interests can you jeopardize in the short term? that's t