In this sense, the banking union is not a scheme to burden German taxpayers with the losses of failed southern European banks; rather, it is a mechanism to render all banks (including German ones) accountable for their own mistakes, thereby reducing the burden that they impose on domestic taxpayers. It is about time that German voters understood that the largest grasshoppers are in the center of their own towns.
从这个角度讲，银行联盟并非让德国纳税人承担南欧银行倒闭负担的机制，相反，它是让所有银行（包括德国银行）为自身错误负责、从而减轻它们给国内纳税人造成的负担的机制。德国选民应该明白，最大的蚱蜢就来自堡垒内部中心。