Indeed, when today’s Europeans peer into the future, they see only prolonged recession and austerity. Europe means nothing but sacrifice: northern Europeans paying for southern Europe’s woes through large transfers, or southern Europeans repaying onerous – and maybe impossible – levels of debt.
事实上，今天的欧洲人放眼未来看到的只有没完没了的衰退和紧缩。欧洲除了牺牲没有其他含义：北欧通过大规模转移支付为南欧的乱象买单；或南欧偿还巨额债务（这或许是不可能的）。