When politicians debated the EU’s future, they spoke of “finality” – the end formula of European integration, as defined in a famous lecture by German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer in 2000. The accompanying intellectual debate, inaugurated by the philosophers Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, defined the nature of European identity, above all, against the foil of the United States, but also in terms of the challenges posed by globalization.
当政治家们为欧盟的将来辩论时，他们谈到“最终”——欧洲整合的最终方案，正如德国外交部部长约施卡·菲舍尔(Joschka Fischer)在其2000年著名的演讲中所定义的那样。伴随而至的、由哲学家Jürgen Habermas和Jacques Derrida发起的知识界辩论首先从反对美国进犯、但同时也根据全球化带来的挑战角度定义了欧洲身份的特性。