B on your point the economies of EU members are all different and if they had not submitted control over their own policies to Eurocrats then Spain, Ireland, Portugal etc, even France, could all be doing much better. As could we with the right government (smaller).
From that article -"However, the third quarter was not a success story for all euro area economies, with Spain, Greece and Cyprus remaining in recession. GDP in Spain and Greece fell by 0.3pc, while Cyprus contracted by 1.4pc. Third quarter data for Ireland, where growth was flat in the second, was not yet available."
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