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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
How can it be hard to get out when Angela Merkel threatened to throw out the Greeks if they had a referendum against the wishes of the EU diktat?
If France and Germany can throw out another member, then it stands to reason that a member could do something to get thrown out...or could leave by agreement.
This Franco German alliance is looking a bit worrying. It seems that they call the shots and if they don't like what you are doing then it might just be curtains for your leadership......how is that democratic? No don't answer, it was a rhetorical question, to which I know the answer.
Brussels abhors anything that looks like a democracy.
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Margaret, Merkel is playing the spin game, trapped between 'little Germans' yet and a devalued Euro-Deutchmark. If Merkel could contain just a Greek exit she would be fine. It's contagion that the German economists fear. Every German is paying 1000 Euros to the Greeks. A collapsed Euro though would cost every German 6000 Euros one Euro institution said.
You raise a good second point. One scenario is a collapsed Euro and a Franco plus poor stable EU countries will emerge in Franco German interests. As the 2nd largest EU nation and a trading nation he Germans and the French would make British laws as drivers of Common Market with Britain outiside the tent.
Mind you the Germans and the French look after their workers, citizens better than we do. Theirs the irony.
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