Now you are venturing into to tinfoil hat territory.

Who exactly are these mysterious creatures that are “only interested in gaining more power?”

That and the rest of your post is typical hyperbole in my opinion that gets trotted out whenever the EU or the Euro is attacked. Yes there are elements of truth, perhaps enough to allow a watered down version of your comment, but the reality is the economic troubles are not of the EU or the Euro’s making albeit the existance of the Euro perhaps makes current times harder, see my previous comments.

Germany let other sovereign states develop industry? If those states decided to take the perhaps difficult and perhaps tough decisions to do that Germany doesn’t have a say in it. See again my previous comments. Either way if you are convinced Germany will not “allow” such an event to happen they are going to be of that persusion whether the Euro exists or not! So it’s certainly not an argument contra the Euro.

As for federalisation equals less democracy, what? How so?
Do you understand the meaning of federal?
Do you understand how a federal system works?
Do you associate liberal with leftie, commie loving, pinkie etc. etc?

Under a federal system each region (nation, state as you will) gets a degree of devolved power and makes local decisions.
This is exactly what you state is happening in the UK… So under your argument Federalisation is ok for the UK regions / nations but not for the EU as a whole. Strange.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalism

Tough times today do not automatically equal EU / Euro is bad or wrong or ineffective long term. That is a simplistic and in my view incorrect and lazy analysis, but at present it suits those who like to blame all the woes of the world on the EU.