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Portugal is next, by the way, and I am sorry if this sounds personal but the only reason you can say being part of the EU is not the problem for Portugal or Greece is that you yourself recently took advantage of Portugal's EU membership to escape the sinking periphery boat into the core.
Your the problem [is] rather the lack of solidarity, vision, and courage of those that command [the EU] today sounds a lot like Gandhi's Western Civilisation would be a good idea or the typical quip about such and such place would be great were it not for its inhabitants.
The EU doesn't lack vision or courage, it lacks solidarity. Trichet and Schäuble have been awarded Charlemagne Prizes for their role in this crisis, Trichet has shown considerable vision by correctly predicting a European Commussioner without a budget to spend but with the power to prevent member states from spending. Mario Draghi has a vision for Europe: "the European Social Model is already dead", and the courage to "print" 1 trillion Euros over the Bundesbank's hissy fit, to give to the banks while continuing to strangle the public sector. Merkel has a vision: the era of living beyond our means is over and the necessary pain may last decades.
What the EU doesn't have any more is solidarity. So, fuck this for a lark.
In that sense, I also have to echo cagatacos on the strength of the EU myth. In the prophetic words of JC Juncker, the Euro will outlive us all, which could also be put as the Euro will bury us all. There are three stories about the euro crisis: the Republican story, the German story, and the truth. -- Paul Krugman
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