‘The eurozone is a complete disaster and Britain needs to leave the EU’

‘Roger Bootle, one of Britain’s top economists and managing director of Capital Economics, just dubbed the eurozone a “complete disaster” and claims a Brexit would be good for the UK economy.

In an interview with MoneyWeek to promote his new book ‘The Trouble With Europe’, Bootle says: “I think the eurozone is a complete disaster and I’m not a Johnny-come-lately on this subject I was saying it right from the beginning.”

Bootle believes the grouping together of uncompetitive nations like Spain and Greece with industrious and fiscally strict countries like Germany and the Netherlands makes the Union completely dysfunctional.’

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