Europeans had a unique relationship with which no one –&#160;especially the United States – should interfere. As Dominique Strauss-Kahn, then France’s finance minister, put it in 1997, “People who are married do not want others in the bedroom.”
婚姻比方最初用来表明欧洲关系是一种排他关系。欧洲人之间的关系是独特的，容不得外人——特别是美国人——干预。时任法国财政部长斯特劳斯-卡恩在1997年指出，“结了婚的人不容他人上床。”