In my opinion it can work, but it requires hard work and a continual willingness to negotiate and compromise to deal with all the banana skins that a union of such disparate nationalities inevitably produces (not exactly the easiest thing in the world when you consider it has to encompass the egos of all the politicians involved).
A full “political union” is more likely to create further divides as (for it to succeed) it requires a degree of ceding of political sovereignty which will raise the nationalistic hackles of political opportunists and agitators in many of the member countries.
The problems that the lack of “political union” can bring clearly be seen when one contrasts the Eurozone with how well its main comparably sized competitor, the USA, works in facing up to its own fiscal problems.
Over the last few months as the US approaches its debt ceiling; the GOP and the Democrats (in the House and Senate) along with the White House have been striving tirelessly and selflessly to negotiate and compromise, willingly putting all their respective sacred cows on the table for the betterment of the country as a whole rather than seeking a political advantage for their own party..........
Hmmm...... actually, when you think rather more deeply about it, the problems of the Eurozone don’t really seem all that badl
