He told Britain's Daily Telegraph that the lack of central powers to co-ordinate economic policies allowed some members to run up unsustainable debt.

BBC: Jacques Delors: Euro was flawed from beginning

According to the paper, which was first obtained by the Daily Telegraph, these issues included transferring further supervisory powers from national to EU agencies, any actions that affect tax revenues or substantial levies on the financial sector.

WSJ: Fiction of the EU Summit's Accepted 'Facts'

This is a bedrock argument of the Obamacare foes, and it must tiptoe around some inconvenient facts of daily life such as state car insurance mandates (they are state laws, and states have practically unlimited powers under the Constitution).

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