PRINCETON – In recent years, the European Union – or, more accurately, the powerful countries of northern Europe – has been subjecting its weaker members to social and political “stress tests” in the name of fiscal rectitude. As a result, southern Europe and parts of Eastern Europe have become a kind of political laboratory, with experiments producing strikingly varied – and increasingly unpredictable – outcomes in different countries.
普林斯顿—近几年来，欧盟——或者更准确地说，是北欧强国——一直在以财政清明的名义迫使其较弱成员国进行社会和政治“压力测试”。结果，南欧和部分东欧国家成了政治实验室，不同国家的不同实验产生了大相径庭——也越来越难以预测——的结果。在上一次欧盟峰会后，卢森堡首相容克（Jean-Claude Juncker）甚至表示应该排除“社会革命”风险。