The purpose of the EU has been, and always will be, to give France and Germany the total control over Europe through economic means that a couple of centuries of on-again, off-again warfare failed to accomplish.
Looks like it's working (except for the UK's refusal to get completely on board).
Exactly... and Germany isn’t any better than Italy, Spain or Greece, they just control the central banks and can manipulate interest rates in their favor and force loans to surrender sovereignty. This “crisis” is no crisis at all, it was all a part of the plan. It wasn’t long ago Germany were the sick man of Europe.
The problem with that is that France and Germany are historic enemies, and the Gloire de La Belle France can not easily coexist with the Vaterland.