BRUSSELS – At the beginning of the financial crisis, it was said that banks were, in Charles Goodhart’s crisp phrase, “international in life, but national in death.” At the time (2008-2009), large international banks had to be rescued by their home countries’ governments when they ran into trouble.
布鲁塞尔—金融危机开始时，人们用查尔斯·古德哈特（Charles Goodhart）的名言来描述银行：“生而国际，死而民族。”当是时（2008—2009年），国际大银行在深陷困境时不得不由母国政府出手相救。但如今，欧洲的问题与此正好相反，银行“生而民族，死而欧洲”。