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Originally Posted by jammies
In the USA there is easy internal migration of people from a locale with a depressed economy to areas with booming economies. The same is the case in Canada - look at the people moving from the depressed East out to Alberta, for example. In the EU, while in theory this is also possible, I doubt that a lot of the Irish are just going to up and move to Germany, or vice versa, depending on which area is doing better. This is a large mitigating factor that softens the effect of national economic policy, that is simply never going to happen in the EU.
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Good call, I never thought of that. From personal experience I noticed some of the richer Western European countries being quite discriminatory to Eastern Europeans. In Switzerland there was a political party who's entire campaign was to "kick out the black sheep" which pretty much refers to "Yugos" which is applied to anyone from the rough vicinity of the former Yugoslavia.