"force" like: No reforms, no money.

Probably "bribed" into reforms is more adequate?

They've been offered to drop out of the Euro, and they've been clever enough not to slaughter the (angry) milk cow.

Concerning Puerto Rico:

I read they want statehood, but the GOP prefers a colony over a certainly blue member state.

Big scale gerrymandering...

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