Political integration may have been the suggestion, though the 2008 and 2020 crises have not seen an increased push for such a political union, so I think it is

Political integration may have been the suggestion, though the 2008 and 2020 crises have not seen an increased push for such a political union, so I think it is extremely unlikely. Yanis Varoufakis wrote about this here in 2014, in particular he gives his interpretation of why monetary union alone was doomed to fail: https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2014/08/29/why-is-europe-not-coming-together-in-response-to-the-euro-crisis/ https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2014/08/29/why-is-europe-not-...