You could have refrained from using a nonsequitur. The austerity measures are a power play to gain control over those countries and nothing else besides. If you think that Germany was doing this with an eye towards allowing those countries to remain independent, think again. One country couldn’t keep it secret that the Bundestag was reviewing their national budget before its home government got to see it; how many more countries are successfully keeping that secret?
“If you think that Germany was doing this with an eye towards allowing those countries to remain independent, think again.”
No, I don’t believe at all that they have a goal to keep those countries independent- that’s the point. The other countries got themselves into this mess through failed socialist policies- so what other options do they really have?
They either submit to greater control, or they get out. Either way, they will have to adopt different spending policies to survive.