As Sherlock Holmes understood, a dog that does not bark in the nighttime usually goes unnoticed. In Europe’s case, the European Union’s fiscal rules are at issue, and the Commission – in principle the EU’s watchdog – should bark loudly when they are flouted.
布鲁塞尔—以让-克劳德·容克为首的新欧盟委员会开局不利。但从新闻中你看不到这一点。福尔摩斯知道，不在午夜乱吠的狗往往不会引起注意。在欧洲，欧盟的财政规则是问题所在，而欧盟委员会——原则上它是欧盟的看门狗——应该在问题没有得到重视时大声吠叫。