^ Don't worry about it the french will be on strike and it will never happen. The financial mess is one of the few truly good bits about brexit, the pound becomes and remains ours, the Eu is not like the states with such similar goals and qualities of income, life, standards of living and country finances vary so much across this continent the single currency is going to implode some point or another IMHO.
What they've been doing is that German Banks "clear" their lies with the French, iron out differences "in committee" then both swear to it. Challenges are marginalized in endless mid/low level Bureaucratic meetings much as the early Irish settlers in Pennsylvania took out their garbage. Mostly, they did not.
They just kicked it about until it eventual got lost - or the pigs ate it.
Job security for the rock-rats is that decisions are NOT made, more staff must be hired to review ever-weightier matters, responsibility has expanded, titles and salary upgraded in recognition thereof, and the "work" expands, repeat unto fat retirement.
England's reps to the EU are not specially "moral" about any of this. Never were.
They have served as counterweight for a different reason. Perfidious Albion is
always looking for an
opening they can exploit to THEIR advantage. THEIR thieves tend to stealthily set-up in ambush - ready to prey upon each other, such that collusion is risky business.
Much the same, Old Lady of Threadneedle Street and the crawlers of Kornhill. There are players, there are "scorekeepers", there are sharpshooters, critics, and predators "outside" the tent as well as inside. They have to deal with competition from Asia, the USA, and more, all the while messing with the Russians for practice.
"The City" is not so insular as the "Continentals" as to presuming they control the playing field and can ignore "outsiders".
Nothing especially ethical or moral about any of that equation. It wasn't actually even "planned". They just try harder to not lose. Or get caught econoshagging.
A workable balance ensues.
My gripe is our politicians bailed the banks out, i wish we went the Iceland way and let the greedy fuckers starve. For the average bod working pay check to pay check it would have had little impact.
Not that easy to
starve a tapeworm and not harm the host. The "Iceland way" had a serious impact. Very. Many, many years before the train-wreck, but the first Icelandic friend I made was a Banker. Eye-openers, our chats.
Not meaning to go off in that direction, but just look at how small their population is, and how damned near everything but steam heat and fish must be bought from overseas. Then paid-for.. with what, and earned from what source?
Especially as the fishing biz was hammered so badly, and so long ago, already.
I was only borderline pro-Brexit. Didn't vote. More on getting the UK out from under the administration and "legal" idiocy than on economic grounds.
After watching how the EU has handled THEIR end? "It is time" on the economics, that UK turn outward and forge a new place and deals with the still-dynamic world, BREXIT or no.
Those blind fools at the helm of the EU are not working on the challenges and to the realities of present-day Planet Earth.
They seem to think they are dealing with a "leaver" among the ranks of aristocratic secret members of a "private stock" Napolean III era BROTHEL, and a kinky one at that!
