These doubts are even stronger among those who consider the ideals of a social Europe insufficiently fulfilled, owing to the right’s political dominance: control of 18 of 25 governments, the same number of European commissioners, and a majority in the European Parliament. Moreover, Lionel Jospin’s elimination from the presidential election in 2002 by the far-right Jean-Marie Le Pen is widely interpreted – wrongly in my opinion – as the result of the Socialists’ pro-European position.
这些疑虑在一些人心中更为强烈．他们认为由于右翼政治思想的主导，欧洲社会主义的完美模式没有得到充分实现——欧洲２５个政府中的１８个由右翼政治领导者，欧盟委员会委员也是如此，右翼也占了欧盟议会议的大多数。而且，时任社会主义党总理的若斯潘在2002年的总统选举中被极右翼政党民族阵线候选人庞勒淘汰出局一事也被广泛理解为表明了社会党的亲欧立场，而我却认为这种说法并不正确。