User blog comment:Maltalidenta Kwuitidherali/English Politics Polls/@comment-26486187-20160307233657/@comment-26347028-20160311102848

You do, however, require money for these services, and so more money does actually equal more services, and better services. Seeing as only three countries in Europe have any real economic power, there are therefore only three players of any real value. That's going off of raw income, not anything else.

Growth is necessary for us to move forward, stagnation is not a good thing for making these services you speak of. We need growth to move ahead and make more progress forwards. And right now our growth is slowing down into negative numbers; just like the current interest levels of the ECB.

The only people currently harming relations is the French with their empty threats. Because there really is little they can do without harming themselves more, and that wouldn't be a wise choice.