Do you want Germany to raise military expenses?

[Kagemusha]

that was Corbyn's bright idea, no?

frankly, if germany just spent the missing 0.8% of GDP on investment a government spending, financed by tax rises that would do more for peace a security in europe than any other single act.

right now the german economy - aided by a suppressed currency - is de-industrialising the rest of southern europe.

and while we all might hope that italy see's the light, realising that the euro has never don't it a single cent of benefit, and leave..... it ain't gonna happen.

so step up, germany.

Do you actually have some sort of evidence to back these pretty spectacular claims?

[Furunculus]

Do you actually have some sort of evidence to back these pretty spectacular claims?

that italy has not lost one quarter of its industrial capacity since 2008?
http://www.isigrowth.eu/wp-content/u...per_2016_2.pdf
euro-membership takes away the old policy prescription of inflating away structural productivity problems, but if the country has no interest in structural reforms it might as well have inflation as a tool in its toolbox.

or that a 'german' euro isn't 17% undervalued against the dollar in PPP terms?
http://www.businessinsider.com/r-eur...rs-2017-2?IR=T
which in opposite balance leaves countries like italy with an overvalued currency relative to the position of its economic performance.
again, not germany's fault that it introduced the hartz IV reforms in the noughties, which have suppressed the spending power of the german worker an so their appetite for goods which will include imports from neighbouring eu nations, but... you could always transfer wealth;

or that the eu has been incapable of creating the transfer union necessary to make a common currency area a success, by ensuring less competitive areas are not left behind?