The global economy is based on currencies inc.the Dollar and Euro ,-as the exchange rates fluxuate with corrections between this sets off corrections in the global marketplace --IE AS this pertains to US sailboat sales ,-Not many US sailors are going to purchase EU boats at inflated EU value prices --a 30,000 dollar plus 20 for example when an I-20 is available at half the price .--US sailboat sales in total go down in 04 --now up in total in 05 ,though US mfg and other imports may be the increase ,--thus the correction over time of fewer EU boats sold ,--the higher Euro valuation not always a positive factor on the EU ecomomy or indicator of future economy ,-and more due to foreign investment in dollars or Euros -and return on investment .
good article here --http://www.cato.org/dailys/01-02-04.html

The increase in EU may be due more to the more free market industrious UK and other more free market oriented EU nations entering along with promises to hold individual nations deficets to a low percentage ,--of which numerous nations like FR that can not sustain its socialistic entitments promptly are breaking by running larger ones than agreed and other EU nations are holding to. This while having nil on self defence or any real military . Note they are also breaking Kyoto environmental agreements ,-and have numerous military and conflicting economic interests and dalliances in their former African colonial nations under UN auspicies like the Ivory Coast ,-where military intervention and bungling continues .

What you begin to see is a another bankrupt socialistic nation its elitist leaders --Chirac and Co. {as per failed former soviet union} acting much worse and causing more damage and it appears being involved in coruption. Numerous govt officials being involved in the UN oil for Food Scandal --FR having been the Husseins regimes major trade partner .---Socialist nations corrupt leaders or as per last centuries history --national socialism can become far far worse than any corperation could ever imagine .---People can be inherantly evil and descuctive in government or private sectors --it is nieve to believe otherswise and invest your future in socialistic notions while the con of a false boogyman construct of evil boogmen corperations ,--be they in Galleons or modern transport ships .
VDH warns us to watch CHINA --unchecked by any constraints of EU or caring much about its opinions or caring about morally unfounded letcuring or socialistic notions.

The world depends on a healthy growing economy and stable markets and currencies ,--millions upon millions suffer in a global recession . The US has always actively been directly involved and encouraged free trade with Europe , more evident now with globalization of so many international companies . We wish a happy healthy free prosperous people of all nations that make up the EU ,-though EU constitution is full of ambiguios language that states one thing then contradicts itself ,giving too much power to centralized EU authorities ,--not necessarily pro biz as some suggest or mistakenly believe.

-IE -Take the critical term “subsidiarity,” with which the euro constitution promises to protect the vestiges of national sovereignty. This term invariably occurs in the vicinity of a seriously damaging question, namely: What remains of the democratic forms of government achieved by the nation-states when the EU takes charge of their legislation? The answer is that we must apply the “principle of subsidiarity,” according to which decisions are all to be taken at the “lowest level compatible with the project of Union.”

What is this lowest level, you may ask, and who decides which decisions are to be taken there? The only possible answer to the second question — namely, the EU apparatus, including the European Court of Justice — removes all meaning from the first.

The Eu poster sites in part--quote --
For the Dutch --(we don't want to loose our veto power) and the fact that we're paying millions of Euro's to EU That and the fact that many are tired that our politicians are selling us down stream to lobby groups and big corporations. In general, people care less about free markets and open borders than about the benefits of a social-democratic society. In france a few other points were involved as well; most having to do with market liberalisation and the cutting of state social programs.
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The poster fails to comprehend the basic lessons of history previously stated --That is in part no civilization has grown or prospered without a healthy marketplace -free trade -and large middle class of entrapenures partisipating in it ,--The Galleons sailing trade routes and opening the new world with free trade routes and nations of the EU coastal region built its population centers in centuries old cities like Amsterdam for example.

We suppose people like the poster sited the big Galleon corperations and trading shop owners of the 1600s as the evil boogyman , never comprehending little would have been built without the free trade and Galleons with free sea access and military to protect them ,-A difficult lesson learned latter in history now seemingly forgotten again .
Now similarly erroring in thinking ---
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>>, "people care less about free markets and open borders than about the benefits of a social-democratic society"
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Please comprehend --the hospitals -roadways -infrastructures for cities --water sewer systems -bridges -electrical grids -power stations --complex flood water control systems --etc all require an inflow of revenue ,-these are created by hardworking people -
{{not necessarily evil --"big-corperations "}} a rather childlike boogyman concept ,-just people producing valued services and goods that require open free marketplaces along with needed resources and materials. Imported goods reciperacly being needed to provide decent standards of living -
Without this EU declines and socialists boogyman meets the reality of a more embittered people disillusioned by declining standards and bankrupt system unable to sustain itself .
People in EU nations are certainly free to live a socialistic existance as per here in the US ,---however - WITHOUT BASIC FREE TRADE -capitol investment -entrapanurialism -and freedom of human creation in a free open marketplace without excessive taxation a people or nation or group of nations have no basis to sustain itself ,
Thus this aspect of human exisance --the free human creative entrapenurial insticts ingrained in us must be the central humanitarian theme ,-this requires us to engage to mutual benifit ,-which enables us to build prosper and solve the problems of humanity .