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Originally Posted by Itse
The EU does not equal Europe any more than the UN equals the worlds, and there should be no assumption that what the EU does somehow represents either general European opinions or general European interests.
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I don't think anybody does equate them...it's just that there's a sentiment that it is better for the nations to find the money themselves, especially when a country that has benefited from the Eurozone (such as Germany) likely has the capacity to find the money from the years they have been in union. If memory serves, the weakness of countries such as Greece have managed to keep the Euro lower and have left German exports stronger than they really should be. The feeling I get is that this is all just a way to make their own federal budgets look better to their parliaments if foreign money is used instead of looking like an enabler to the concerned nations (which, as you point out, is hard to do as you state many citizens are questioning the wisdom of the Eurozone).