[NicoJuicy]

? They were some stronger countries that wanted to play by their own rules. It's always like that unfortunately

But don't over exaggerate, we are just about to see the story when one tries to play on their own without the EU. I think it's going to be the first true example of "what happens"

[ackidacki]

It'll be interesting to see what happens with the UK. While this is bad for them i'm speaking of countries in the EU but not in the EZ that have far better metrics across the board inc Sweden, Norway, Denmark & Poland. If you take a 30 year period and compare them to Europe's best (Germany) you can see drastic improvements in them relatively.

It's very distracting to keep looking at the UK and Brexit and forget that others on the continent clearly do better without the Euro. There are still countries in the Eu with EZ opt outs.

I'd also like to point out Switzerland is not in the Euro and not in the EU and its metrics are far better on everything - although it is in Schengen.