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There comes a point where you can go too far in one direction. If Amazon started acquiring a bunch of donkeys it's overall profitability would suffer. It would benefit the donkeys though.
In the EU, Germany probably get some trade benefits from being part of a bigger whole, but they also have to suck up a lot of shit, and thus overall I'm not sure if they are better off.
Germany is - in economic terms - far and away the greatest beneficiary of the Eurozone & therefore in essence of the EU.
Because as an industrial producer it is so much more efficient than every other EU nation & is not burdened like Switzerland with a hugely stronger currency, it continues to crush its Eurozone neighbours. This cannot change as long as Germany remains in the Eurozone.
Regardless of what the German public may think and its politicians may say, the only reason Germany bailed out Greece was because Germans banks had profitably lent them so many billions. Germany "bailed out" itself!
It's amazing how these things remain hidden from the public eye. The QE carried out by the major national banks to "save" us all from global meltdown , was just a massive state handout to those that caused the problems, ultimately paid for by tax payers and savers. I'd explain why, but I've just come off the golf course (birdie on the last ) and it's time for my bath...
My guess remains that the Brexit situation only appears so ludicrous because we do not really know what is going on behind the scenes.
... and don't forget, I STILL don't think Brexit is going to happen (uh-oh, the men in white coats are coming for me...).
Thanks. I clearly need to do update my thinking. I could understand the benefits for the EU up to '95, but after that I assumed it was all downhill. If I understand you, things got even better still for Germany from '95?
Moaaahahaha - did the white coats get you? I think you're of a different opinion now
I enjoyed seing how the very own promissed thing that brought current party in power is the one and only thing that will burrow it to the ground for another decade or so. But hey, pure sheer incompetence (starting from how they run the pre-vote campaign, to the current circus nobody laughs at anymore) doesn't come without a political cost.