Not fair really to blame Greece. Everyone knew the euro was going to cause huge problems. Romano Prodi (president of the European Commission at the time) : 'I a

Not fair really to blame Greece. Everyone knew the euro was going to cause huge problems. Romano Prodi (president of the European Commission at the time) : 'I am sure the euro will oblige us to introduce a new set of economic policy instruments. It is politically impossible to propose that now. But some day there will be a crisis and new instruments will be created'. They wanted to use the problems they created to force through more centralisation.