The Euro is not the EU but it is a very important part of it. As a matter of fact all members of the EU must, in an indeterminate date in the future, adopt the common currency. The sole exceptions are the UK and Denmark which have opt-outs on this matter. These were the two sole countries to learn the lessons of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism fiasco. The EERM was the phase which preceded the introduction of the Euro.

But I can give one example which sumarizes it all. The EU itself. It was politically decided to join the European countries in a much tighter way than the EEC, because many feared that an united Germany would try to make war on its neighbours again. Therefore, politicians devised and created this thing, the EU, as an attempt to intertwin all European countries in such way that it would work as a deterrent to the ideas that many (the most vocals on the subject being Mrs. Thatcher and Mr. Mitterrand) feared might, some day in the future, occur in German society once more. But nobody conducted any technical studies about the feasibility of the thing, about the effective feasibility that all these countries joined together. Of course that if it had been studied properly the EU wouldn't had existed. Then, to add injury to insult, the enlargement to the east without regard to the differences between countries, peoples and societies. It was just decided that they could join and lets move forward.

So, I repeat myself. The utter disregard for reality and science is not something which occurs exceptionally in the EU. It's its basis. Its creation was politically decided without any sort of feasibility studies supporting the political decision and the EU has moved by political decision ever since.



Well, it depends from where you see it. I, for one, have always seen the implosion of the EU as a certainty. Not a matter of if but of when. From where I see it, the sooner, the better. As time passes more ressentment is created and the probabilities to salvage from the rumble, at least a little something resembling the former EEC, are reduced proportionally.