A simple, effective way to buy time would be to abandon the euro and restore competitiveness through a devalued national currency. But this expedient is incompatible with mainstream French politicians’ devotion to the “European project,” which amounts to a projection of French soft power; indeed, building Europe lies at the heart of the French establishment’s version of what Charles de Gaulle used to call “a certain idea of France.”
有一个办法可以简单有效地赢得时间，那就是抛弃欧元，用国家货币的贬值重塑竞争力。但这一方案与“欧洲工程”——法国需要用它来塑造软实力——这一法国主流政客的理想格格不入；事实上，建设欧洲与法国的核心观点是一致的，即戴高乐所谓的“法国的必然思维”。