The European Union's basic Division

Bernie Sanders proudly declares he is a Socialist and he uses Scandinavian socialism as a good working example.  From Finland, a More Positive Take on the Euro has Finland’s finance minister, Alexander Stubb, comparing his country’s current economic downturn versus Greece and how the Euro is not really the issue.  These two references have tickled a notion that Socialism  needs a sharing heritage in order for it to develop a greater good.  The north’s long cold winters created a saving and sharing culture that counts the pennies and allocates the resources to survive.  Southern Mediterranean countries have an easy to live in climate which developed a carefree culture that corrupts rather than organizes for a greater good.  Its the basic difference among European Union members that will always be difficult to reconcile.