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That's the old one. Read the sibling comment.
by slaw 2y ago
That's the old one. Read the sibling comment.
- BrandoElFollito 2y agoThis one you mean? Politicians and oligarchs of poor EU states intercept all EU funding and defraud the funding. Most ordinary folks get nothing, pay high taxes, see everywhere "funded by EU" and wonder "where all my taxes go?!". Without EU poor states can create Slavosphere or Balkanosphere. Their politicians with oligarchs will go full Belarus or even start wars again. Still FR and DE are net payers, no matter where the money goes so why saying that they benefit the most?
- disgruntledphd2 2y agoWell, whatever about France, Germany benefit massively from being in a currency union with less strong currencies. If the DM still existed, it would be priced like the Swiss Franc and a lot of manufacturers in Germany would be unable to compete.
- lifestyleguru 2y agoSlowly Germany is appearing unable to compete without Russian resources. Not even undervalued euro is enough. An open secret obvious to everyone yet their politicians until 2022 had been claiming with poker face that's all hard work and pure business.
- disgruntledphd2 2y agoI honestly don't think that's true. Yes, they need cheaper energy for some industries (cheap energy is almost always useful), but they're still doing well. Now that they've (finally) accepted that the debt brake was a terrible idea, I'd expect them to return to growth (and indeed their precision manufacturing is gonna be helpful in this turn towards defence spending).