it is not like we forced them to adopt the euro. they wanted it very much. they wanted it much more than nations with stable currencies. i remember when i was

it is not like we forced them to adopt the euro. they wanted it very much. they wanted it much more than nations with stable currencies. i remember when i was on holiday as a kid around 1999 when the banking euro was introduced there were all these signs with prices in ECU (European Currency Unit). Back home everything was still in Guilders. My dad told me it would yet be a long time before greece would be financially stable enough to adopt the euro. yet they wanted it so much they used some creative bookkeeping to get in the same time we in holland did. was that the smartest thing ever? maybe not. but it was their choice. perhaps if the books had not been cooked, we would not have accepted them into the euro. And they would not be in this situation.