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Don't be naive. Without either of them actively promoting and wanting it, there wouldn't have been a Eurozone. Any other country could have dropped out, but nei

• kleiba 15y ago
  Not sure were you get any naivite from my post. It's not like Germany and France decided to create a new currency and a few bystanders hopped on board. It was a very complicated and long process, and yes, the German reunification was at the heart of it, 10 years before the Eurozone actually came into existence. Even the US and Russia played key roles in the process. I do get where you're coming from though, since Germany and France have been the motors of the EU's economy. Fair enough. But the original claim from the ancestor was that Germany and France created the Eurozone and others joined later. That's simply factually untrue. Anyway...