While that outcome remains unlikely, it is increasingly clear that many European countries – and the EU as a whole – need to renegotiate their basic social contracts. But European elites, preoccupied with short-term fixes, have not considered the long-term need for such revisions – to their own detriment.
尽管这一结果尚难发生，但越来越显而易见的是，许多欧洲国家——以及欧盟作为一个整体——需要重新商定基本社会契约。但欧洲精英被短期问题缚住了手脚，并未考虑到长期修正的需要——这会给他们自身带来伤害。