These reforms should seek to achieve a thoroughly revamped social contract that reflects the realities of twenty-first-century demographics and global markets, but that also remains sensitive to Europeans’ commitment to distributive fairness and political equality, and insures citizens against shocks. It is easy to call for “reforms” without specifying their content or taking into account the social, historical, and political context.
这些改革的目标应该是彻底改造社会契约，使其反映二十一世纪人口和全球市场的现实，同时也要顾及欧洲分配公平和政治平等的承诺，并保护公民免受影响。呼吁“改革”而不具体指明内容或考虑社会、历史和政治因素是很容易的。