What? You understand how trade goes around in the EU, right? How it is all connected? From food to flowers to tick tacky junk, medicine to everything people need? Again, that is the whole point of founding the EU. EU trade works pretty much like a mechanical clock. Even the timing of transportation of needed goods hour to hour in trade was set according to this net.
UK is not Switzerland. It's an island with a population of 66 million. Just the trade with Ireland is gonna suck for them as hell. Because now, there will be a real border between them. Ireland is EU. They will have to pay for every deal. And the EU won't let them go around as they like, as it looks like happening with the fishers.
Ireland is getting impatient. It's very weird. Apparently they don't even communicate with them, or inform them ahead what is going to happen with the deals and all. And they claim there is deliberate chaos created by the British government. In short, do they really look like they know what they are doing up there to you?
I'm curious of your meaningless bias against Germany. It can't be the obvious, can it? Do you have any idea how strong and stable Mark was when Germany accepted Euro? It was the European Dollar. Peopole here didn't buy Dollars, they bought Mark. From France to Nederland, the major economies were lockled in on it, anyway. And this is an economy that restarted from scratch after 1945. Not to mention the world of compensation they have paid for decades and then some.
You are talking as if they have been lying around doing nothing and keep collecting tributes, getting huge loans -Greece comes to mind, but not comparable of course- and keep wasting it on corruption, screwing their own people and EU or something. Sorry to bust your bubble but these people know how to work an economy, if you haven't noticed. It's not like you can benefit from Euro without knowing how to work that and produce like hell. What else is there? They have obviously learned some heavy lessons about pouring down money into wars too. So yeah it is a success. Especially considering doing all that while herding more than a few million Middle Easterners.
I haven't grown up with German culture, I actually know little about it compared to the ones I have grown up which is British -American as in popular cultural and the country has too old natural connections with French and Italian. I live in Levant, remember? The thing is, I think similar things for Japan too. They have both become very successful. This is about success after losing WWII. But I don't get why some people make it a big deal when it is about Germany.
