Let me guess, you are german. Trading deficit parity when? Or laws you signed don't apply to you?
The Euro benefits the 1%, but not the "common" (i.e. actually working) population.
That's an American slogan and approach, and maybe with their policies of wealth distribution, it's a legitimate target. In Europe the resentment against the very rich is usually reserved for those who dodge taxes.
> the "common" (i.e. actually working) population.
The common, actually working, population usually has pension build up and savings. Try asking those people who formerly had highly volatile currencies how they feel about having those in Euro.
Government money is being redirected to a) prevent revolts (social security) b) sustain the privileges of the civil servant class c) prop up the stock market and house prices for the wealthy.
The Euro facilitates this; giving public funds to country X so that part of it is spent back in Germany (prop up the stock market) is just one gambit of stealing money from the common population.
The working population in Germany does NOT have secure pensions in general. Please look up "Altersarmut" (old age poverty).
And the D-Mark wasn't volatile...
Swing and a miss.