Sigmar Gabriel and Emmanuel Macron, the German and French economy ministers, recently called for a common fund to address Europe’s refugee and security challenges and to finance joint policies. The fund would serve as a concrete risk-sharing mechanism and would be a modest, yet meaningful step toward overcoming the deadlock over EU initiatives, if not toward mutualizing defense and security, as some scholars recommend.
德国和法国也提出了一些更有雄心的计划。两国经济部长加布里埃尔（Sigmar Gabriel）和马克伦（Emmanuel Macron）最近呼吁成立一个共同基金解决欧洲的难民和安全挑战，并未共同政策提供融资。该基金将作为具体的风险共担机制存在，并且，如一些学者所言，这将是克服欧盟计划的障碍——乃至通往共同化防卫和安全——的有意义的一小步。