MUNICH – Under substantial external pressure, the eurozone’s crisis-hit countries are, at long last, bringing themselves to make painful cuts in their government budgets. Salaries are being slashed and public employees sacked to reduce new borrowing to a tolerable level.
发自慕尼黑——在持续的外部压力之下，那些遭到危机侵袭的欧元区国家终于放弃了长期以来的抵抗，开始忍痛削减财政预算。一方面大幅下调工资水平，另一方面削减公务员职位，希望能令新增债务的规模维持在一个可忍受的水平上。