a country should never try to "print money" more than it should or more than usual just because they want to get out of a bad economical situation.
in this case, creating their own cryptocurrency is exactly "printing money" and that is more harmful to economy of that country than it can do any good. specially if it is done in order to bailout!
Such measure is one way that countries try to bring back their economic wores. So how do they avoid it when that is the last hope. I know certainly that printing of currency leads to devaluation of the home currency but at same time, it can savage the situation at the moment.
It does not salvage anything. Printing money leads to a one-way road, inflation, bigger inflation, even bigger inflation, final stop Venezuela.
I'm always amazed how people here would recommend that countries in the EU would return to their own currency, be it Italy and Greece while the same time cheering how bitcoin has a fixed amount of coins and countries should embrace a currency that leaves no room for inflation. If Italy or Greece would go full crypto right now they would be in an even worse situation than with the current Euro, which while still being fiat it's at least far more stable than what their normal currency would be.
I'm always amazed at those 180 degrees changes in opinion people here go through..
The economy in the EU has nothing special currently. Most of the European countries are in a hibernating mode waiting to see how the Brexit will go. The same old banks in agony, there is a real fear in Italy with the oldest bank there. We don't hear a lot of positives in the EU. We just finished paying Greece for its crisis years back.
Nothing positive but at least there are little to none stories about whole countries collapsing, remember 2011-2013 when everybody was only PIGS, PIGS!!! , like we were playing Angry Birds ??