One can only pity the Southern European countries. They should almost thank the French for their inability to impose effective austerity measures and thereby still run a small current-account deficit, which has prevented the eurozone surplus from becoming even larger.
我们只能对南欧国家表示同情。它们应该感谢法国，因为法国没能采取有效的紧缩措施，因此仍保持经常项目略有赤字的状态，阻止了欧元区盈余的进一步扩大。