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We're literally pumping money into our poorer members to get them up to speed
We're giving them loans, that they have to repay and with the provision that they have to enact austerity. The welfare being cut is being replaced by companies from richer countries, making a lot of money out of it. It's basically the same thing the IMF does to a lot of developing countries.
https://www.statista.com/chart/18794/net-contributors-to-eu-budget/
After we forced them to privatize their services, so that money basically goes back into German capitalists who now own large part of Greece's infrastructure.