The European Crisis of Philosophy is the Destruction of the European Union
The entire project of creating the Euro was a means to allow Northern Europe to effectively takeover Southern Europe and impose its philosophy in a totally one-sided arrangement. I have stated plenty of times that all the debts of member states should have been consolidated into the central Euro debt and thereafter each state would be on its own as is the case in the United States. But from the outset, this was like pretending to be one family, but you do not really want to associate with your drunken brother-in-law who is always asking for money. Oh yes, you have to pretend to be nice at funerals and weddings. But that is where family ends. The European Union is no different.
The crisis brewing here is monumental and it will tear the European Union apart at the seams. There is this crisis that because the Euro was NEVERdesigned properly to begin with, Brussels is trying to enforce its demands upon every member state to maintain austerity regardless of the consequences domestically in each member state. When Southern European states joined the Euro, they had to convert all past debts from their local currency to the Euro. What happened was not only their national debts DOUBLED in real terms, but ALL PRIVATE debts also DOUBLED. Suddenly, banks that had lent Italian lira were now demanding to be paid in Euro which doubled in real value. Nonperforming loans skyrocketed and every politicians blamed the bankers for their own misguided creation of the Euro.
Noe the crisis in philosophy is rising to the surface. The new Italian government wants to provide €1.5 billion to compensate savers for bank failures. Brussels is insisting that violates their bail-in rules and cannot be done.
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