The recent elections in France and Greece, together with local elections in Italy and continuing unrest in Spain and Ireland, have shown that the public has lost faith in the strict austerity forced upon them by Germany. Merkel’s kill-to-cure remedy has run up against reality – and democracy.
法国和希腊的最新大选，以及意大利的地方选举和西班牙和爱尔兰没完没了的政坛乱象表明，公众已经对德国人强加在他们头上的严厉紧缩失去了信任。默克尔破而后立的疗法站在了现实和民主的对立面。