Some posters who "argue" for the end of the EU to get out of the tyrannical EU led by the northern states don't seem to understand that an end to the EU would just mean a newly created northern/central/baltic EU without the south and east.
Now the southern states can depreciate their currency and maybe get the competitiveness going again. And they will suddenly realize that their new PS5 will cost 3 to 5 times as much without a complimenting rise in wages (in contrast to inflation, your wage doesn't rise with the import prices on goods when you depreciate your currency, who would have thought)
On the other hand, all the advantages that Northern Europe gets due to the Southern countries (a much bigger market, brain drain, ability to have an undervalued currency) will also evaporate. The whole thing is a two wawy street where we both need the other.
The EU as it is right now is half way done and the current set up has a natural advantage to the northern European countries that started on a better position as their currency is undervalued in comparison with what should be while in southern countries the currency is overvalued. The lack of significant ways to reschufle the money (or avoid the creation of defacto fiscal paradises such as in Ireland or Netherland) was supposed to be only temporary, not the semi permanent state that it is right now.
Southern Europe is not asking for Northen Europe to pay up for everything. Southern Europe only wants to be treated with some fucking respect and not to be insulted in every single turn by Holland (the event by Holland is not a first but rather a constant thing were southern europeans are treated as poor lazy bums that know no better). Southern Europe doesnt want to have to go through another austerity period that will kill their economy again while the northern better off countries just shacke it off like in the great recession.
Southern Europe tends to have some of the lowest levels of eurosceptism in the EU and has been always proEU and pro further integration despite not being treated in the best way possible. Perhaps it is time for northern european countries to actually make more concessions to southern Europe.
Edit: a ton of people could understand the treatment during the great recession (it was partly our fault) but the treatment during a "wtf just happened-noone is guilty" is really not a good thing.
