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Originally Posted by Osem
He who pays the piper calls the tune eh?
It's a dangerous game being played right now... 
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I'd be more inclined to be 'fair' about that if I didn't have the niggling feeling that the whole raison d'etre of the EU was the creation of a German dominated superstate. |
The original reason was to tie France and Germany together in order to prevent another European war. It was about preventing German dominance, not enabling it. Unfortunately the supposed counterweight to Germany (France) is still a largely unreformed Socialist mess. Germany is the strongest economy in Europe and the single currency has been so inflexibly designed that it is always going to favour the strongest economy in the zone over the weaker. If France had been the strongest economy, then it would be France now sitting on a massive cash pile and getting pressurised to bail out the Greeks. But it's not. If you want to blame the Germans for anything, blame them for being efficient and hardworking.