Even barring such a nightmare scenario in 2012, the summit sowed the seeds of future conflicts – over the emergence of a “two-speed” Europe and the false economic doctrine guiding the eurozone’s proposed fiscal pact. That doctrine, by imposing austerity in a period of rising unemployment, threatens to push the eurozone into a vicious deflationary debt spiral from which it will be difficult to escape.
即使能够阻止这一2012年噩梦情景，12月9日的峰会也种下了未来冲突的种子，即“两速”欧洲的出现和错误的欧元区财政计划指导思想。峰会提出的思想是在失业率上升的时期采取财政紧缩，这可能会导致欧元区陷入难以摆脱的恶性通缩债务循环。