Cross-posted from I-CONnect blog.
Towards the end of the 1990s I was invited to a workshop just outside of Berlin at which a group of young academics gathered to discuss the future of the European Union. The workshop was funded by a German think-tank that had generously, if perhaps misguidedly, provided significant amounts of food and drink to assist the process of contemplation. We had a great time, but by the end of the two days the future of the Union was, if anything, rather blurrier than it had been at the start.
One conversation I had at the workshop has stayed with me. An earnest German doctoral student tackled me about Britain’s position on the Eurozone. He wanted to know why Britain had decided not to join, and voiced a dark suspicion as to the answer. Was it true, he asked, that Britain planned to wait, see how…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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