[FatherofFive]

We thought we had a deal that every country would look after its own finances, only to find the deal was broken

I still do not understand how you can 'negotiate' a common currency amongst nations.

[nerdwithagun]

I had a college professor constantly lecture of how great the European Union is and America needed to do something similar with Canada and (of course) Mexico to be able to compete. He wasn’t the worst in the world, but if there was any subject that I knew was any liberal pontification of any professor that was going to come around and bite back it was this one. No idea what he thinks now, probably would argue these are temporary setbacks and/or “it’s all Bush’s fault” with the economy going bad around the world and it all goes back to him.

[Olog-hai]

Great. So because of a new Molotov-Ribbentrop agreement of sorts, Finland can’t leave the eurozone.

[Gay State Conservative]

Unless I’m mistaken Finland needn’t leave the European Union if she drops the Euro and I haven’t read *anything* suggesting that there’s *any* chance of her leaving the EU.Assuming that I’m correct on both points it’s hard to imagine the USSR attacking *any* EU country.Attacking Georgia and attacking an EU member state are two *entirely* different things IMO.Such an act would bring an enormous firestorm from Europe,the US and elsewhere.It would create a unity among Western democratic nations the likes of which haven’t been seen since WWII.

[mamelukesabre]

Note to finland:

Get out of the eurozone, join NATO, and if you MUST be a member of an economic union, create a new one (separate from the EU) with norway, sweden, greenland, iceland, estonia, lithuania, and latvia. Maybe denmark if they talk real nice.

[fallujah-nuker]

Finns obeyed the rules of EU membership with scrupulous care, while others gamed the system. “Our Lutheran morality, if you will,” said foreign minister Erkki Tuomioja.

The beer drinking nations of Northern Europe seem to be solvent, and the wine drinking nations of Southern Europe are insolvent. I propose that that Northern Europe adopt the "Beero" and Southern Europe adopt the "Bachma." Pun intended for any Lao speakers.

[Lurker]

The last time the Russians tried to push the Finns around it didn’t end well for the Russians.