Do we just follow Greece?

IMO, many people have somehow forgotten why the debt brake even existed: it was done because of the debt crisis in Europe, with Greece as an extreme example. For many years, the economy was kept running with public investments from debt and there was a bloated civil service and pension system. On January 1, 1999, the euro was introduced in some EU countries. Greece was admitted to the Eurozone in 2001 despite meeting EU criticism of convergence