You aren’t considering those poor struggling Norwegians and Swiss who have to strive to survive in pockets of prosperity using their own national currencies, cast a drift in an ocean of debt ridden neighbors.
What if German taxpayers had to spend their money on themselves and their families instead of subsidizing the pensions of French unionists and Greek civil servants? Oh, how lucky is Germany, to have such willing dependents!
Who said they’re willing? Governments have fallen over the issue of taking bailout loans, and that being governments against taking these loans falling in favor of those who are for taking the loans. Happened in Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Italy (the latter two having had their leaders appointed by the EU in order to be all for taking bailout loans).
The German people are just as dead against the issuance of these bailout loans, and rightly so—which makes them sympathetic with the rest of the people of Europe. The elite rulers? Not so much, especially since they get to set the terms, one of those terms being that the countries who take the loans surrender their sovereignty.