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Why EU and Euro? To prevent European wars? .. to unite Europe? .. after all the idea arose as early as 1929 ..

Early ideas

Pierre Werner's .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Werner .. report began the first moves towards monetary union

First ideas of an economic and monetary union in Europe were raised well before establishing the European Communities. For example, already in the League of Nations, Gustav Stresemann asked in 1929 for a European currency against the background of an increased economic division due to a number of new nation states in Europe after WWI. At this time memories of the Latin Monetary Union[2] involving principally France, Italy, Belgium and Switzerland and which, for practical purposes, had disintegrated following the First World War, will have figured prominently in the minds of policy makers. .. more with links .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_euro#Early_ideas

rather than a fight against the $US??? .. this video gives evidence to that position ..

Why The Euro? From Concept to Currency

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0-JxhdYcjM

and the trouble with the Euro today still seems to me the fact they rushed into
it without prerequisite monetary, banking fiscal and political union as mentioned
upstream .. and the austerity policies they have followed in the recent crisis

.. don't think i'll ever watch the other i gave you .. maybe i'm wrong, BnB, but am not
sure why, and on what evidence, you have decided it was solely an anti $US move.