@Sven - The Germans have made out like bandits with the Euro. They have a guaranteed market for their exports all over Europe, and they have defacto control of the money supply out of the European Central Bank in (Guess Where?) Germany."Fourth Reich" hegemony over Europe has made it extremely difficult for countries on the periphery to compete, because they have to deal in a currency they have no control over. Germany is quite happy to send its BMWs and Mercedes Benzes to those countries for good money, but when the shoe drops and these countries need help (primarily because of economic imbalances caused by German domination) the Germans turn their back? This is not good enough. If you are going to have Imperial dominion over a whole continent, you have to take responsibility for all people on that continent, whether they are in your country or not.
Going back to my example of Canadian equalization, Albertans bitch all the time about money flowing to Quebec, but that doesn't seem to stop the system. At the same time, they are quite happy to sell their tar sands sludge to the Americans, while forcing up the Canadian dollar and screwing up the economy for everyone else.