Abstract
If an individual were tasked to identify the root cause of the Eurozone’s response ambivalence towards addressing its crisis and the inability to formulate a shared identity, these words spoken by the then German Finance Minister, and Emmanuel Macron, currently the President of France, would not be too far off in explaining it. Ever since its inception, the European Union has struggled unnervingly to showcase and – to a large extent – underscore the vitality of the envisioned inseparability as a base on which the Maastricht Treaty’s superstructure was to be erected. The word struggled is there to emphasize the ironic manner in which the aspired image has not yet materialized – and may not do so at all. This is because the principal factor responsible for the lack of fruition of the aforementioned collective vision and, by effect, the enervating of the masses, stems from the stark ideological contradictions existing between the member states; and here, the core is perhaps more to blame than the periphery.