• EU was never envisioned to be a fiscal market

    • only a shared economy to ensure peace trough economic dependency
    • common fiscal market would also require a common spending policy
      • how much to pay for e.g. education, healthcare, etc
    • there are still efforts for cooperation and control
    • multilateral agreements are in fashion currently
  • has a Black List

    • countries try to get off that list as fast as possible
    • currently 12 countries on that list, volatile tho