There was only one country that took oil payment in Euros....guess who that was.
Give you a clue...he had no sense of humour, had a moustache and pulled of the biggest bank heist in history.
The biggest savings are in Gt britain which is the only country on the other side of the Atalntic that has anything approaching a funded pension scheme. The others have nothing by comparison. Britain is the only Country in that part of the World whose economy is holding up and it is NOT in the Euro and doesn't want to go anywhere near it.
As for the 500m members the biggie os Germany and its broke and has unemployment over 10%. Lets see how long it stays politically stable. Wouldn't liek to be on that would you?
As for the new ones they are mostly poor and applied to get in at a time when they figured that tehy could get in on someone elses meal ticket.
Lets see how long now the Germans are prepared to put up with that. Yuo know how funny the Germans can be when they get unstable.
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