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Would joining the euro zone improve Britain’s global economic position? My colleague Edward Hadas sets that question as a wise sixth test which might be said, rather like Tolkien’s ring, to bind together all the five membership tests the U.K. formulated a decade ago. His positive answer, however, is wrong. The euro’s inherent flaws have not been rectified. The U.K. will continue to fare better outside the single currency.