Anyone suggesting this as a reason Greece would have been better off outside the EU is out of their mind. As poorly as the EU performed during the financial crisis, nearly every member of the EU was better off inside rather than outside. There is a reason Turkey is so keen to get into the EU even after the crisis.
Also, while it’s correct the British media has been using the mistakes the EU made during the financial crisis (which were the same as the mistakes the British made, who self-imposed austerity and continue to do so), the reality is none of these actually apply to the UK which has its own currency and as a result has/had dramatically more financial freedom.
The UK essentially had the best of the EU and had avoided the worst of it. It’s amazinf that they voluntarily gave up that deal.
>There is a reason Turkey is so keen to get into the EU even after the crisis. //
Keen in the way a person who is shovelling doughnuts in to their face is keen to lose weight. They've done basically zero about major flaws that prevent their entry; indeed rather than stop human rights offenses Erdogan has multiplied them.
To me, it seems more like Erdogan played the EU card to get internal and external critics off his back - and now that he has "consolidated" his support at home, he doesn't need the EU card, also you can only play it out so many times before it gets old.
A "no" vote was seen as a "leave from the Euro zone" vote by the average citizen. It was the Greek government that ignored the referendum, not the Greeks.
And? Some people would say it's 'known' that CNN is fake news. That statement and yours are equal in nature - neither of them tell us anything useful about the content in question.
