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By Brigitte Granville, Hans-Olaf Henkel & Stefan Kawalec
On the eve of the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln famously said that “a house divided cannot stand.” Today, the European Union — committed for decades to the quest for “ever closer union” — must confront an agonizing truth. Lincoln’s maxim must be inverted. For the EU to survive, the euro must divide.
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