"We've got to be explicit that the road to greater economic success does not lie in this cosy assumption that you can move from a single market through a single currency to harmonising all your taxes and then having a federal fiscal policy and then effectively having a federal state."

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Source: Brown vows to keep national control by Ian Black and Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2003.

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Gordon Brown is a British politician and former Prime Minister, known for his focus on economic reform and social justice.

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