For EU politicians, however, the long term will be reached only after a series of short-term electoral challenges, so pro-reform governments may well not survive to reap the benefits. As Luxembourg’s Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker remarked, all EU governments know what must be done; what they don’t know is how to get re-elected once they have done it.
不过，对欧盟政客来说，长期是遥远的，中间隔着好几个短期选举挑战，因此支持改革的政府可能撑不到改革效果显现的那一刻。正如卢森堡总理容克所说的，所有欧盟国家政府都知道必须做什么，它们不知道的是一旦做了，怎样才能赢得连任。