> They even falsified their stats to adopt the Euro. "They" is ill defined here. The people who falsified the finances were not the people who suffered under a

> They even falsified their stats to adopt the Euro. "They" is ill defined here. The people who falsified the finances were not the people who suffered under austerity. > Except the EU is not responsible for and does not control their member states' finances. During austerity, the "troika" (which included the European Commission and the European Central Bank) micromanaged Greece's finances. The Greek government was basically held hostage and forced to take very specific measures, down to which tax to change by which amount and which state assets to privatize in which way. The EU publicly aspires to be much more than just some soulless customs and currency union, and throwing a member state under the bus in this way and immiserating its population goes against what the EU supposedly stands for.