In the final episode of season 5 of Game of Thrones, Cersei Lannister is forced to make amends for all the sins she has committed over the years. Her hair is shorn, she is stripped naked and forced to walk through the town while the people curse and spit abuse on her. Cersei has committed terrible acts, but her punishment is so brutal and dehumanizing that it destroys the moral authority of those who judge her. How a society treats those it deems to have violated its rules says a great deal about the character and stability of that society. By that standard, Europe has not only disgraced itself in its treatment of Greece but has revealed the true nature of the European project. The illusion of a monetary illusion leading to a democratic political union have been shattered. Europe is a German-dominated Game of Thrones. The European Union has been immeasurably damaged by its treatment of Greece.
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