Europe suffers from a shortage of leaders who can speak in its name; from a shortage of ambition (what, after all, is the collective ambition of Europeans now that the EU is perceived more as part of the problem than part of the solution). But, above all, Europe suffers from an identity deficit, for no one seems to know what it means to be a European nowadays.
回答这个问题看来并不容易。欧洲缺乏一个能代表整个欧洲大陆的领袖，可能是他们缺少雄心，（欧盟作为欧洲一体化的产物，可以看作是他们雄心的体现，但对许多欧洲人看来，欧盟非但不能解决问题，往往是问题的本身。），不管怎么说，欧洲没有一个整体的认同感。也许没有人知道“欧洲人”究竟意味着什么？相反的，这些欧洲人所缺乏的东西好象正是美国人所大量拥有的。