David Malone is a documentary film-maker, who learned his craft at the BBC science department where he worked for nine years, ending up on Horizon. Since then he has made films for C4, BBC2 and more recently BBC4.
The strongest force holding the Euro together is the political force of creditors. Were the currency to collapse, much of the debt would collapse with it. So the question is, who are we saving the Euro for?
If you are a banker what you want is risky, high interest rate loans without the risk... Sooner or later it follows that what the bankers need to do above all else is to elevate financial contracts above democracy.