I'd be interested to know who he is referring to as 'the bureaucrats'. All the top offices in Brussels are on cycles (usually four years, sometimes five), no one is clinging to power.
I'm going to repeat my earlier point though, that the 'bureaucrats in Brussels' in reality have very little power. They have as much power as the civil service does in a normal democracy. They propose legislation, that is all, they do not pass it, all of that is done by either the Council, the European Council or the Parliament, or a combination of the above depending on the topic. All of the above are either directly elected (in the case of the Parliament) or indirectly elected as they are the heads of state or ministers from the member states (in the case of the European Council and the Council) and are not the kind of 'bureaucracy' that he, or anyone else, is talking about whenever they talk about the EU.
As for the Euro being a disaster if Greece is kicked out, of course it would be an economic disaster. If Greece were kicked out, what little faith there was left in the Euro would likely collapse because who would want to invest in a currency that changes its market every time something goes wrong. At the same time, if Greece were kicked out the Euro all the other Euro members would lose faith in it and the project would likely fail. A single currency is a brilliant idea in theory and shouldn't be given up on so easily because this may be the only chance we ever have at trying it.
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