TEc - Disunited states of Europe - EU woes

The title to Charlemagne's latest piece is fitting enough.
Tellingly it wraps up the actual root cause of most macro problems now facing the EU.

I was never in any doubt that EU integration would be a slow, painful often heated-and-prone-to-setback process spread out over decades.
How could nations that lived at loggerheads with each other, in fierce competition and animosity over centuries ever hope to stand as one after a handful of years?

That said I cannot help being awed at the level of disunity that has surfaced thanks largely to a flawed economic model. A model based on seeking permanent help from money lenders to plug mounting deficits as if there was no tomorrow.
Rolling debt is acceptable until the debt pile is so huge as to become unmanageable. Yet this is exactly what happened to Southern European countries (Spain excepted), Ireland and outlier UK.

Uncertainty remains the only meaningful word.
The Eurozone's complexity is far from being approached aiming for resolution through balanced compromise.

While I instinctively agree with the points you've raised I am yet to see that silver lining come into full view.
There never was such good timing for a serious review of sorts and ways within societies. Much, however, hinges on prevailing dynamics in each of them. The way government and various leaderships across the full spectrum play out their stakes also featuring decisively.
I would hope to see balanced change driven by a greater goal come about.
As critical as it is for main bodies from civil society to rise up to the times, governments too must lead the way. Not by playing Daddy but by preventing or managing conflict wisely always for the greater good of the greatest number.

Failure to do so will mean a relapse to the very causes of the current mess. Such a mess would then perpetuate itself.
Each man for himself would signal a civilizational leap backwards most of us would not wish for.