This tension between Europeans’ goals and their ability to achieve them is playing out again in the wake of the recent EU summit. Europe’s leaders now agree on a vision of what the EU should become: an economic and monetary union complemented by a banking union, a fiscal union, and a political union.
这种欧洲人的目标与其实现目标的能力之间的不和谐在最近的欧盟峰会上再次出现。欧洲领导人如今就未来欧洲应当走向何处达成了同样的愿景：一个经济和货币联盟，并辅以一个银行联盟，财政联盟和货币联盟。而当讨论转移到应该如何——尤其是何时——建立后面这三个联盟时，麻烦就来了。