While a lot of focus is on the UK and it's membership of Europe, perhaps the bigger problem lies elsewhere
Finland will be debating whether to leave the Eurozone after a petition reached the required amount of signatures to force a parliamentary debate. The petition calls for a referendum on Eurozone membership
The signature will be checked for authenticity early next year with a debate to follow after. For a referendum to take place it would need to be backed by the Finnish parliament
Some Finns feel that they would benefit being outside of the Eurozone as they would be free to set their own interest rates and devalue their currency. Many have been citing Sweden as an example of how a country could benefit as they're economy has grown 8% since 2008 while Finland's has shrunk 6%
The petition was launched by Paavo Vayrynen who is Finnish member of EU parliament saying;
"Now is a good time to have a wider debate whether we should continue in the eurozone or not,"
The story underlines the issues of faith that many countries have about the European dream. It's probably unlikely that this petition will turn into an actual referendum but the risk is there nevertheless
Reuters has the full story (h/t YAR)
