and yes, of course, it does not mean that the eurozone does not have problems, nor that some policies are going in the wrong direction (we do have a number of rightwing governments in place), but it does help fight the neoliberal discourse, which is our goal.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

Most of us observed that there was/is a constant denigration of continental EU economies from the business press, especially Anglo-Saxon. The aim of this propaganda is precisely to get our governments to apply more of the same 'medicine' that produced the worsening conditions for the underclass. It's two aspects of the same issue.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}