The charismatic figures of the mid-twentieth century – Churchill, Adenauer, and de Gaulle – have no contemporary counterparts. Citizens associate the EU with, above all, bureaucratic grayness and technocratic rationality.
屋漏偏逢连夜雨，欧洲其实还有另一个不足：政治领导力的不足。20世纪中叶那些半神式的领袖——邱吉尔、阿登纳、戴高乐——如今后继无人。欧盟让民众联想到的首先是暮气沉沉的官僚作风和技术官员主导的冰冷理性。