Sarkozy has adopted a statesmanlike pose, as befits the incumbent, warning voters of the hard grind to come, such as the need to work longer hours for lower hourly pay. But selling to the French public painful structural change as the price to be paid for “Europe” no longer works.
萨科齐倒是显示了现任领导人应有的风度，警告选民做好艰苦奋斗的准备，比如接受更长的工作时间和更低的时薪。但高速法国公众痛苦的结构性变革乃是为“欧洲”所不得不付出的代价这一招已经不再灵验了。