> Your thesis is that Eurozone accession enables future fascism ("Ngl joining the EuroZone (what Magyar did) is precisely the myopic decision that allows future fascist to rise to power.").
Not really. I said it creates future crises that the fascists are usually best poised to seize.
If one country in the EU experiences problems (e.g. France/Greece/Italy/Ireland), then the whole EU will experience problems (because they have the same currency).
So rather than one country in Europe having its problems and dealing with it internally, most of Europe has a problem. And worst yet, if the crisis causes the euro to devalue, it will benefit only the net exporter countries, causing massive divergence in economies of different countries.
I hope you can see how this will cause losers to be more spiteful, while making winners more arrogant. That spite is great place for various far-right monsters to spawn.
It's a myopic decision because, as you said, it definitely has some benefits for companies and consumers alike, but long-term it sentences you to joint economic pain, without relief.
> What does that have to do with Croatian fascist leanings
It was a response to your quote:
> ...of the new EU members from CE, Slovenia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Slovakia, and the Baltic countries adopted the Euro and I don't identify a fascist streak there.
You obviously are not good at identifying a fascist streak.
> Compared to what?
Stable EU states that aren't in the EZ. Like, say Norway or Switzerland.
> only talking points about perpetual EU crisis which are exactly what the fascist movements are pushing, so yeah.
Fascists can also talk about massive poverty. That doesn't auto-disqualify it. Their approach to solving it does.
This is slightly different from mine: either tighter EU integration or disbanding the Euro.