[v4dok]

Instead they got hush money to keep rotting away their industrial base and make sure that the best thing they have is German products consumers. I am forever angry at German "high politics", how did they think this is going to turn out? And they didn't even have the guts to say to their citizens "Hey you know all this EU-growth? It is because we suppress the periphery"

[mmarq]

I hear this quite a lot. Italy received free money, but that was a secret plan of the Germans to take over the country, because they know that Italians are stupid and would destroy their industry and buy lots of Audis. But this eventually destroyed Italy and now nobody is buying Audis.

This implies that Italians are dumb and that Germans are still in the business of making evil plans that fail at the end, because good always triumphs.