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Germany is also continuing to exercise those selfsame "failed socialist policies". Do you really think they turned themselves around from "sick man of Europe" to its economic overlord within less than a decade through practicing capitalism? No they did not. They instead used the European Central Bank, which manipulated interest rates in Germany's favor while simultaneously weakening states that needed to keep interest rates lower to maintain their economies' health. Lest you forgot, those selfsame ECB interest rate hikes also resulted in the USA's financial meltdown.

The "social market economy" is something that is pushed on every EU member state via the treaties (currently Article 3 Section 3 of the Treaty of Lisbon), so it's not like any country could avoid such socialist policies if they wanted to be in the EU.

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You’re making over-generalizations, and cherry picking facts- but even so, how does any of what you argue counter the point of the article, that the EU, and eurosocialism has been a failure?