> the Greek system mostly worked That's highly debatable and in a changing political landscape there was no future for that. A tiny country next to the EU and

> the Greek system mostly worked That's highly debatable and in a changing political landscape there was no future for that. A tiny country next to the EU and a large Eurozone? Greece needed reforms and some (not all) of them were long delayed. That's also the point of the EU and the Eurozone. It provides the framework for the reforms. The largest win for Greece is a stable democracy, after a long phase of political instability and military governments.