You can't complete the "EU project". Politically and economically, it is just very obvious that states want different things from Brussels (btw, the people who

You can't complete the "EU project". Politically and economically, it is just very obvious that states want different things from Brussels (btw, the people who go to Brussels are generally very different from national politicians...they are globalists, most citizens in Europe are not)...that is why it hasn't happened already. You also raise very good points, that most people forget, about how Germany got here: they got here by squeezing the poor and transferring wealth to billionaires (there is a reason German billionaires are low-key). Another important feature is banking: that is how the wealth transfer occurred, and German banks are in a terrible state (they seem to get involved in literally every financial crisis: CDOs, lending to shipping companies, lending to Turkey, lending to Greece...it is unbelivable). That is why the German model doesn't work (Japan copied the German model, and their banks self-destructed eventually...it doesn't work). One cool stat that demonstrates this is that Germans have slightly lower net financial assets than Greeks. Yes. The richest country in Europe has citizens that are poorer than the "basket case". What is also forgotten is that two decades ago, it was Germany that was the basket case (the OP also inaccurately says that Germany was a powerhouse in the early 1990s...nope, it was a basket case then too because it had to integrate East Germany). The Euro has benefited one nation above all others (and Netherlands...although their success is partly due to becoming a tax haven) and imposed massive costs on others (Italy, in particular, has had nearly three decades of austerity between the ERM and the Euro...it is madness).