European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 2 June | 63 comments (63 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

But the original sin was that Italy and the others begged to be let in.

Germany did not want them in, because the Germans did not expect the Italians and other peripherals to be able to live with the euro - and in that they were not wrong.

And even back then, more than 20 years ago, they were not willing to make the political arrangements that would have made a currency union with structural deficit countries possible.

Wind power

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Jun 2nd, 2011 at 09:44:06 AM EST
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Re: fair enough (4.00 / 2)

Italy and the others were already in the Exchange Rate Mechanism.

The poriphery's political commitment to European integration amounts basically to a Stockholm syndrome in the case of monetary policy.

It appears Germany of all countries has no political commitment to European integration, of which maybe France is to blame as they managed to prevail over Germany in the first EEC constitutional crisis, in which Germany was Federalist and France Nationalist.

Economics is politics by other means

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jun 2nd, 2011 at 10:02:59 AM EST
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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 2 June | 63 comments (63 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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