Inconvenient voting across the eurozone

Sixty years ago pondering the question of an unruly populace, Bertolt Brecht, the German playwright mused:

It was a rare piece of ironic criticism of East Germany’s communist regime for Brecht. It’s one of his most famed observations, trotted out whenever a populace is ungrateful enough to vote “against their own good”.

EU politicians can sympathise. They’ve laboured for six decades to fashion a union that was supposed to end wars and greatly expand economic markets, not to mention bring former communist states into freedom.