At the end of the day, the Europeans can't have their cake and it eat, too. Either the Eurozone is a truly integrated, multinational superentity, or it's a meaningless construct on top of a group of wholly independent nations. It can't be the former when things are going well, and the latter when things are going poorly. A fairweather EU / economic zone doesn't work, because it's built on a foundation of quicksand.
How can these countries rely on a cooperative economic superstructure when, beneath it all, they still see each other as competitors? Transnationalism doesn't work when you're secretly a nationalist.
How can these countries rely on a cooperative economic superstructure when, beneath it all, they still see each other as competitors? Transnationalism doesn't work when you're secretly a nationalist.