What seems clear is that what Jake and I (but not only us) view as structural, political and economic problems, don't seem like really existing problems to you at all. So it is pretty pointless discussing policy at any level. Before we can talk about solutions we'd better agree on what problems we're supposed to be solving.

But from my point of view, the problems that are there cannot actually be solved within the institutional framework the EU has constructed, with the economic conventional wisdom of the people in charge or likely to be in charge (which is, from the point of view of conventional wisdom, pretty much self-perpetuating regardless of who wins elections). The drive to austerity demonstrates this - it's the only politically and institutionally possible policy in the EU right now, and it is already having disastrous consequences.  

Something's got to give, and I'm not sure what it's going to be.

Economics is politics by other means