In this context, the selection of the European Commission’s next president – now the focus of considerable attention – is a sideshow. Whoever is chosen will be able to make the EU work only if French President François Hollande can build a domestic pro-reform consensus and British Prime Minister David Cameron can convince his electorate that immigrants (only one-third of whom come from the poorer EU member states) benefit the UK economy.
在这样的背景下，现在饱受关注的欧盟委员会下任主席人选问题并不重要。不管选谁，都只能在法国总统奥朗德形成国内亲改革共识和英国首相卡梅伦说服选民移民（其中只有三分之一来自较穷的欧盟成员国）有利于英国经济的条件下才能让欧盟运转起来。