Generalized efforts by all governments to balance their budgets simultaneously might actually result in a perverse combination of budgetary (and trade) imbalances as well as a lower level of employment and income worldwide
The undesirability and ineffectiveness of exit from the Eurozone, and the Ponzi-like nature of continued assistance to insolvent sovereign debtors, leaves only one option: default – preferably consensual and negotiated with creditors.
In several European countries growing populist movements are threatening the representative democracy and the entire post-war social democratic settlement.
The real question is the extent of collateral damage that a Euroarea-member’s default – in the form of debt restructuring – would cause, in view of the interdependence between banks and “sovereigns” both within countries at risk and across the entire area.
The fake referendum imposed by Fiat asked its workers to choose between either worse work conditions dictated by the company or the factory's de-localization abroad with their associated unemployment.
Critics have alleged the superiority of the US system in terms of growth,and employment, but since the turn of the century, the euro zone has created more jobs than the United States and income inequality is lower in the EU than in the US. However In the last ten years many factors have diluted the EMS.