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 whole point of the EU was to be a red herring for Germany’s economic control over Europe, never mind the rotating presidency since we all know who’s pulling the puppet strings behind the closed doors in Brussels.
The EU is nothing more than a leveraging tool to “carrot and stick” the rest of Europe into allowing German economic control, NATO is simply the muscle behind the EU collection agency.
Germany took a temporary economic hit when they had to assimilate the former “East Germany” and bring them up to the 21st century after decades of rotting under Soviet communism. The Germans have always had a productive economy and it still is today. It seems that among the Europeans, only the Germans and Poles care about working.
As for a “Pan-European war” that some poster refer to, I don’t see how a bunch of countries that aren’t willing to work hard would be willing to fight hard. Nothing that Europe has done in the last generation indicates otherwise. If they do declare a “war” it will be no more serious than a sorority pillow fight.