" And so it turns out that all talk of gradual moves toward a political union and toward “more Europe” are not first steps toward a European democratic federation but, rather, and ominously, a leap into an iron cage that prolongs the crisis and wrecks any prospect of a genuine federal European democracy in the future. "

― Yanis Varoufakis , And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future