Speaking from the heartland of the troubled South, I can attest to the fact that the need for austerity has been the leitmotif of Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s government, a course that gained explicit popular support in the recent elections. Reforming Spains’s cajas (savings banks), labor market, welfare provisions, and how its autonomous regions function top the national agenda (though unfortunately only at the insistence of the European Commission and Germany).
身处受困南欧的中心地带，我可以证明，紧缩的必要性确实是西班牙首相拉霍伊政府的主旋律，在最近的选举中赢得了明显的群众支持。改革西班牙储蓄银行、劳动力市场、福利制度以及自治区运转模式占据着国家日程的最优先级别（虽然不幸的是，这是应欧洲委员会和德国要求而不得不为之）。