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Mar
05

Will the Euro Currency Bloc Fail?

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Twenty-seven European nations currently belong to the European Union, a loosely-woven partnership designed to empower Europe’s competitiveness with the United States, China, and India. Sixteen of the EU’s member nations have adopted the euro as their official currency, and five other European states unofficially use the euro.

As continental Europe forged its economic partnership, leaders hoped adoption of a single currency would protect the member states against radical fluctuations in the value of their national currencies and would serve to protect their national credit ratings. In the EU’s brief history, the euro has fulfilled members’ hopes. Recently, however, precipitous declines in several member states’ economies have triggered sharp drops in the euro’s value and raised new doubts about the long-term advantage of an international currency.

In theory, the use of a uniform currency facilitates the flow of goods and services across international boundaries, sustaining the Eurozone as the world’s second largest economy. Just as importantly, robust economies in the EU’s member states maintain the value of currencies tied to the euro-especially in emerging African nations.

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Modern historiography specialists have long argued that an essential segment in the study of human evolution is inextricably tied to the basic understanding that societies generally emerge, progress and fall cyclically. Such frequency in social evolution is not just a consequence of endogenous factors, it also results from the impact of the external environment, be it close – neighboring constituencies vying for the same resources – or far – as part of a larger geographical area.

History teaches us another fundamental truth, predominantly unveiled in social sciences: humans are inherently prone to believing in the danger of the unknown, the fear that uncertainty – when present in life – brings an intolerable level of complexity in handling daily activities. Economists, in tandem with the larger group of social scientists, ascribe the word “risk” to this angst.

Risk lies in everyday life. From birth to death and in between the terrestrial episode called life, humans experience a sophisticated relationship with risk and utilize it as a powerful catalyst to furthering their interests. We fear the unknown not just in temporal terms – e.g.: what will tomorrow be? – but also in more practical, present-day terms, that is, what will happen today?

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