Since the industrial revolution, the world was found new ways to modernize it's markets. From times long forgotten and only read about in history books, societies have grown and have come to form bonds of trading called marketing with each other. At the beginning, trade was done with one's resources, offering them to the other who didn't have them for exchange of others. This later turning into exchanging them for currency to be able to buy products from a third one that the second one didn't have but the first one needed. Due to the globalization of the markets, turning them into global markets, the individual society has turning into an organization. Some controlled buy governments and others by big multinationals.
Due to the globalization of the globe, there has been an increase in the loss of individuality of some of regions, states or nations. And due to the economic crisis, and the reforms and cuts in many parts of the world, some of these regions or states have found themselves having to deal with ever more urgent and extreme reforms. Although politicians in general, seem to be accepting these so called "orders" from other states in their global market, the people find it unfair for them to be the ones paying the price.
Most of the economic crisis has affected states that have had a lack of or any control of their economic system in the country, which were mostly run by the heads of the major if not all the banks, talking out the mortgage rates and giving out loans and stocks. But when everything is going the right way, no one seemed to care about the cracks in the system, as when one takes money out of place "a" to put in "b" thinking that they'll recover it from somewhere else instead of just waiting having the money. And then not being able to put it back in there.
A lot of us do this kind of micro economic management at home ourselves. We prioritize things we need and things we don't. Although there are some fixed expenditures that we have, we sometimes, tend to borrow from ourselves to pay for something that isn't necessary by not paying a fixed expenditure. When we have fixed income, it is easy to assume that later on we'll be able to pay that borrowed money back, and in some cases with an extra charge. The problem arises when we spend more than we are supposed and aren't able to put that money back where it was supposed to go, or when the income decreases or stops. There are a number of factors that can come in to play to cause such problems, unexpected bills, a loan to a friend that never comes back, self improving standards of living...
...the problem comes when you can't put back the money. And when you have to ask for money from the outside, and you have easy access - well, that's when the shit starts hitting the fan. As you spend more and more outside your income, you have more and more debt. There comes a point when that money from the outside stops, and they just want you to pay back.
With many states and regions, that have formed or were absorbed into a larger state/organization, when these problems arise, and they still have roads to build, teachers and functionaries to pay and they can't get the money from outside, they start asking and putting pressure on the people they have inside to create more resources or give more services. With more pressure, the more the people start questioning why should they have to pay for something that the banks or big companies have done? It wasn't there fault that a bank gave money to a construction company to build outside their region. And not only that, but the money that they have put into saving accounts aren't accessible to them? Or that they have to pay more commissions for services rendered by the bank. Many countries and regions have their own histories, and such situations just make it easier for the people to ask questions about why they are in these larger states or organizations and aren't just trading things and putting the prices themselves. Oil is regulated by a group of countries forming an organization just as the currencies are controlled by countries and states. But there comes a point when others start telling what to do.
The Greeks are tired of being told what to do by the European Union because of what a number of bankers or companies did to ruin the economy of the country just as the Spanish are. Yet as in Greece you see the rise of nationalist and extreme nationalist parties, in Spain you see a more regional break. Apart from the national sentiments that have risen, you find regional conflicts rising up. Because of regional tensions and issues that have never been solved you find that some regions want to break away from the main national identity as they feel more attacked on by the reforms and/or cutbacks. You also have countries that find themselves looking forward to more modernization and a better organization for help like Ukraine looking in to join the European Union, but old debts and attachments make it impossible to do so, and you have the fall of the main governing structure that is holding everything together and the break away of regions to "fulfill" long held national ideologies. You also have nations that wish to stop or block trade from other members in the same organization as they feel that they shouldn't be paying such a high rate than others...
...it's all returns to the fact that to grow, regions and states have to share markets with other regions and end up becoming organizations but when push comes to shove they all look at their own identity. Just as you can't ask your significant other to pay for a car that you didn't need to buy.
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