Talk about asymmetrical warfare. The European Empire conquers by wrecking economies of its member states and making them dependent on central economic government.
BS. The people in these nations are electing their own governments. It is their own fault their governments are going broke and their banks are failing. The bankers are just a symptom of the problem, the seedy enablers of massive, unaffordable social welfare states.
These countries could leave the Eurozone if they wanted, but they don't. Greece, for example, could simply default and go it's own way - but it won't because the majority of the people STILL want to hang on to their massive public sector and welfare state.
We are headed in the same direction right here in the US, and it won't be the fault of some "European Empire" conspiracy.