It is primarily cultural. The Germans would be upset with Greece for it's lack of efficiency. Countries like Germany, Switzerland and Austria prize efficiency over almost all things. Though this is understandable, this also could mean the end of Greece.
The other problem with this is that Germany likely would not survive Greece leaving the Euro at this time. So, the problem then becomes sort of "Cutting off your nose to spite your face".
I don't think enough thought has been given to the full consequences to kicking Greece out of the European Union eventually.
I'm not sure most European Union nations even fully understand what they have created so far.
I can see the ancient rivalries and hatreds between European nations and ancient Duchies still living in the European nations today.
If the European Union is to survive people have to evolve past ancient rivalries and find a way to join together not like the United Nations works but more like the United States works. What we have didn't happen overnight. It was a long hard struggle and it is also true that we had a lot of help from other nations like France in the beginning and then England after they got used to our independence by the 1830s or so.
The European Union must understand what must happen for them to survive.
When I look at the European Union it is like observing a woman giving birth to a child but that woman in her mind is a child and not prepared for childbirth. So, one worries that the baby and the mother might die. Before Europe became pregnant with the European Union it was one thing. But, now it is in transition to another. And now, it is something different completely. Will the European Union (and all of Europe) die in childbirth in becoming something greater than it ever was before?
Or will it accept the responsibility of motherhood and move forward in a new and healthier form?
Right now that child being born is Greece, but soon it might be Italy, Spain and Portugal.
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