Who doesn't do that? Every big fish eats up smaller ones but does that mean small fish become extinct. They have their own capacity. Similarly smaller economies do have their own land and people and they can rectify their mistakes if they want.
The EU is not a small country! Its very hard for those outside europe to understand how it works, esp the democratic deficit (the EU parliament has no powers of its own to generate law, for example). Nation states in the EU have given up most of their legal powers to the EU, so they cannot rectify any problems. And leaving the EU is pretty much impossible, as the UK example shows, even when you leave, you still pay up and follow the EU's rules...
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The EU is the politically and ethically crippled Hydra
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