The EU is not the same as the eurozone. The tragedy of Greece is so beset with misunderstanding and misinformation - or downright untruths - and is so often accompanied by positions based more on ideology than reality, that it is virtually impossible to discuss it properly and a make healthy judgment without first establishing some key facts.
Understandably, people talk and write about the Greeks with sympathy, as if Europe had left the people themselves by the wayside. By 'Europe' here,...