Euro Area

[Furunculus]

This is what Furunculus has been saying for years, Andres, Husar feels closer to his own politicians than poor Cypriots. It's the fundamental problem with the EU and why it doesn't work - people don't see it as a pan-European political issue, they see it as a pet project of the elite, and it's not like people voted for the Euro - it's just that all the big parties supported the Euro.

Indeed i have.

@Furunculus is, just like everyone else who shares my viewpoints and agrees with me, clearly a genius. He should be put at the head of the Eurozone and the EU and lead us to glory.

Well quite. If you want some vintage Furunculus then i think this statement has stood the test of time:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...=1#post2271636

Shinseikhan - "Would a European gov't be more authoritarian and secretive because it would be someone ruling from Paris or Brussels instead of the current splendid lot?"

yes. in my opinion this is an inevitable result of moving the cratos further away from the demos, and severing the link that allows both groups the trust the other.
an electorate that watches its masters enact policy that is inimical to the will of the people will grow resentful and contemptuous, especially when they are so far removed from the centre of power, and such a small function of that power, that they see themselves powerless to change things via the democratic process.
a ruling class that enacts policy over a multitude of differnt social and cultural electorate groups must know that it cannot please everyone, (and will in fact please no-one in its compromises) will learn to harden themselves against voter opinion, especially when there is no local link that allows them to empathise with 'their' electorate, and the electorate is so massive and fractured that their can never be effective opposition to individual acts.
it is not that these problems do not occur in national government, merely that they will be greatly magnified on a federal level if we take as disparate a group as the electorates of the 27 eu nations.

i think i deserve a fricking medal!