Germans economic power has been enormous before the introduction of the euro, while countries like Greek had been struggling for a long while. Germany not payin

Germans economic power has been enormous before the introduction of the euro, while countries like Greek had been struggling for a long while. Germany not paying reparations to Greece for WW2 might have played a role there. But why enter in a trade union in the first place? Right, the oligarchs made Greece do it. However borrowing from the Deutsche Bank and expecting them to be nice and fair about it sounds naive to me. Many people don't get it, but the EU is mainly about trade. Not so much about democracy or social equality. That being said, there is some redistribution of wealth between countries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_the_European_Union#Net_contributors_and_recipients http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_the_European_Union#Ne...