text: You mean the Germans are making bank on the EU and are enjoying their place of power within the structure. Germany always did believe it should be the center of European command and control and the EU allows it that prestige.
  
  But the German people may get tired of paying high taxes to bail out countries like Greece. That's coming, but it will take time for the German people to get rid of the elites who are enjoying the power and prestige of EU leadership.