The kind of energy and commitment to defense spending that India represents needs to be injected into Europe, because European rhetoric about playing a strategic global role remains in high gear. But it seems ages since a Belgian foreign minister (as chairman of the EU Council of Ministers) declared at an ASEAN meeting in Singapore in 1993: There are now only two superpowers left, the US and Europe!
印度这种增加国防支出的激情和决心必须被引入欧洲，因为欧洲正全力推动自身成为全球战略参与者。但自从一位比利时外交部长（时任欧盟理事会主席）在1993年东盟会议上宣布“世界上只剩下两个超级强权，那就是美国和欧洲”之后，许多年都没有什么动静。