First, that night of hard negotiations in Brussels reinforced the two-tier Europe for the next two decades. The recalcitrant states achieved a Pyrrhic victory because it will quickly become clear to them that, even if the EU is getting a new institutional framework, the avantgarde countries will decide among themselves what the concrete arrangements will look like.
首先，布鲁塞尔那一晚的艰苦谈判加剧了未来二十年的双层欧盟局面。几个顽固的国家付出惨痛的代价方才获得胜利，因为它们将会很快认识到，即使欧盟有了新的机构框架，那些先驱国家还是会在它们中间决定具体的安排。在这些国家和欧元区中改进合作对于这一点十分关键。