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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1725619, member: 39&quot;]... is not quite what the euro is. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; The European Union is not 27 (or 28 as from 1 July) separate countries - by joining the EU you give up some sovereignty. A country that is not willing to deal with that should stay out, or leave, as the example of the UK will hopefully soon show. Even if a country &quot;only&quot; joins the EEA (such as Norway), it will be subject to EU legislation.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the history of the European Union there have been many cases where the &quot;start it now, fix it on the way&quot; method has worked fine. And like some others, I hoped that would apply to the currency union too. Well, has not really worked so far. May have something to do with the &quot;renaissance&quot; of nationalism in various European countries, may have other reasons. As for &quot;helping out&quot;, in my opinion there is nothing wrong with that - we do that within Germany too: &quot;Poorer&quot; states get compensation, to some extent, from &quot;richer&quot; states. How far this goes with regard to the euro, is an issue that even the Federal Constitutional Court (BVerfG) in DE is currently trying to decide. And &quot;no control&quot; is certainly not correct; ask the Greek for example about the difficult changes the country has been going through.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ah well, in Coin Talk many euro topics lead to discussions like this one, with mostly political comments. Maybe because this is basically an American site, dunno. Fine, but that is why I hardly ever write anything euro-related here (except for replies maybe) and rather take it elsewhere: Somebody posts that Latvia is about to join the currency union, in a coin forum, and shortly afterwards you see replies about why the country should not be in the euro area, or not even be in the European Union. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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