Your naivety regarding the french and germans is breathtaking.
Did you not read the links? The accounts of the EU are a shambles, billions of euros is missing, gone into the back pockets of frenchmen, and germans, and belgians, and italian. The auditors will not sign them off for the 15th year ina row.
The french will rob us and stab us in the back at every opportunity, and they dont care to abide by the rules, either. How about, for example, the illegal ban on our beef the french maintained for several years in a blatant attempt to kill and bury once and for all our beef export industry ?That was appalling and outrageous, especially since they already had BSE in there stock by then. ]
Or the way the French government propped up Peugeot with an illegal loan.
Then theres the Euro. Each country using the euro is supposed to maintain a budget deficit of less than three percent of gdp. France and germany said they were ignoring that rule. When the Euro hit an all time high against the dollar last year, many of the smaller countries in the EU were upset, most of all Netherlands, Austria, Finland and Spain, all of which went through painful fiscal restructuring themselves. It appears there are two sets of EU rules, one for France and Germany, one for everyone else
France only obeys the rules when it suits them. How can you trust a nation that lies through its teeth to us and stabs us in the back?