I thought Germany was basically running the EU?
That is the enjoyable and simple story you get from haters. They need the easy target to blame for shit.
I say it again, we have less influence than we should have, given it is divided according to population and we have the biggest population, but are still capped on the same level as the UK, France and Italy in the council, and this is only half of the legislative, the other half is voted for by every EU-citizen.
As for the judicial branch, every country has 1 judge. And the executive branch.. every country has 1 commissioner, 1. Figure that.
Like whom? Teach us. And don't even dare leaving out London.
The implementation of the Euro was the beginning of the end; caused havoc in Greece and Spain, and Britains refusal to adopt this currency marked the first signs of a rift.
Again a bit to simple, there have been friction all throughout the history of it. The UK is not the only country who didn't take on the €.
What is clear though, the € was Kohl's child, and even in our own country, we did not want it, because for us it wasn't a good idea actually, he did it anyway. Did he benefit from it personally? I don't think so, it was more a political vision thing.
Now we have it and deal with it. Just because we adapted better than others... we are the evil people now?
The UK will do much better than what the fearmongers are wanting you to believe.
So if they were struggling, why? With all their exceptions and own currency? They had a prime position not to struggle, no?
Nobody from Germany forbid a British company to sell its products to India, is that what you are thinking? Madness. So now they will be better off because they can finally trade with India? Sure!
Germany after all has benefitted the most from EU policies.
Is that just another easygoing sentence or do you have balanced, clear cut cause and effect-facts on that?
Germany is surrounded by stagnating economies and in worse cases, recession type situations in some of these nations.
Data? Keep in mind, we are neighbouring Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Austria, the Czech Republic and Poland.
And Germany has benefitted from these crises as well.
Specifics? And of course, we caused them as well basically, right?