Nor the Serbians or Balkan countries are to blame for it.
Did the serb gave the starting shot? perhaps but WW1 was in the making even without the Assasination of the Duke.

It where the old ties of alliences, dying empires and rising great powers and the ones that struggled to maintain their status that got whole of Europe into a Great War and took the whole world with it.

HunterICX

What'S even better, Germany pumps all this money into europe and does so on the basis of its economic strength and its high exports. That is the basis for its feee space for financial manouvers. Limit that space, and German finances decline and finally collapse - and done you are with Germany'S payemnts for europe. Still we get attacked over our economic competetiveness! That we tried to adopt to the crisis soon, by models that we got laughed about for and that now gets copied by others, is being turned into an argument against us. We are "too successful", they say - but the money produced by this success they take nevertheless, without a Thank You and with a fist waved at our direction.

Success makes you sexy, they say. I would say it different. Success raises demands by those who are not. Being in need to be helped by somebody else, raises hate against the helper. What it is really about in the end, is this: envy, and self-hate of those who refuse to admit that they have messed up. the mere fact that they must accept help if they do not want to drown is evidence for them that they failed.

I said that the EU since German reunification, and later the prematurely implemented Euro represent the by far greatest disaster in European history since WWII. And I stand by that statement. A europe of cooperating national economies that find shared psoitions towards the world: yes, I'm all for it. A Europe that is one state, with centralised government, year-planned economy driven by politicians, ideology denouncing local culture and habits and supressing the different identities of people in those many different, very different places that Europe is a summary of: No.

Either the Eu dies, or Europe dies. Because the EU today is the complete antithesis to Europe.

Nationalism. Simply that.

Some French guy put it very elegant. He said something like "Patriotism is love for thy people. Nationalism is hate on other people."

German language:
Die Welt

The leftist "Sueddeutsche Zeitung" even calls the balance "verheerend" (devastating, disastrous):
SZ

German economy ministry declares offers for assistance to Greece as "fail" due to the Greek side delaying talks, boycotting partnership, and obviously not seeing any priorities in modernising the desolate Greek structures.

And this, in English: The Nazis are back:
Der Spiegel