[hibeejim21]

The UK has 'managed' its apparently low unemployment figures by the simple ruse of "zero hours contracts". That is, classifying people as "employed" when they actually do no work at all, nor draw any actual wage for the work they do not do. As far as the regional disparity in many nations across Europe, the UK has exactly the same scenario at work, with many areas of the UK having the same appallingly low employment prospects as, for example, the south of Italy.

You do know the greeks admitted massive falsification of their financial data to gain admittance to the euro ? Germany did not want them in the euro and vetoed their first application. As you pointed out earlier sometimes individual governments have to take responsibility.

After the collapse of the soviet union the EU had to adapt and help these nations or we would have had even more instability and possibly war on our doorstep. Other nations have decided they wanted more close co-operation as it made more sense to their needs.

The south of Italy and spain have always been poor,do you really think preventing them travelling to other nations to work is going to help?