Put simply, Germany wants (or wanted - we don't talk about the euro crisis much anymore even though it was never really resolved) everyone in the EU to a) trade

Put simply, Germany wants (or wanted - we don't talk about the euro crisis much anymore even though it was never really resolved) everyone in the EU to a) trade mostly with other EU members, b) run a trade surplus. This is obviously impossible, but Germans don't want to hear that in a modern economy, for Germany to have no debts means someone else must. They sent moralists to do an economist's job. That being said I have no idea what the OP was on about, it's not illegal, it's just stupid.