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Germany has industry that Southern Europe can't compete with. Germany's power is from the Mittelstand, which everyone knows about yet no one is able to duplicate. Germany could have invested those hundreds of billions of Euros into itself to manage the transformation of Germany’s energy system, but instead it took the burden of improving the economic condition of ALL Europe on itself.
Southern Europe is obviously more economically and culturally tied to the rest of Europe today and in fact its always idiots calling for such an alliance so they can claim some glory. Imagine wanting to isolate Southern Europe into a union with camel jockeys in modern North Africa and the Middle East because they were Roman territory 2000 years ago.
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