The threat to the EU’s political cohesion is even greater than the military risk. The euro crisis has transformed an ever-closer union of equal sovereign states, willingly sacrificing a share of their independence for the common good, into an association of creditor and debtor countries, with the debtors struggling to meet the creditors’ terms.
欧盟政治凝聚力风险甚至比军事风险还要大。欧元危机已将一个由平等主权国家自愿牺牲一定独立性以追求共同利益而形成的无比紧密的联盟转变为一个由债权国和债务国组成的联合体，债务国为了满足债权国的条件而焦头烂额。