For southern European countries, joining the euro was – explicitly or implicitly – a way to force their citizens to accept a degree of fiscal discipline that they were incapable of adopting on their own. But was this a democratic decision, or one that an “enlightened” elite forced upon its unwitting citizens?
许多人会说，这是如此。对南欧国家来说，加入欧元区直接或间接地迫使其公民接受了一定程度的他们本无能力接受的财政纪律。但这到底是民主决策，还是“启蒙”的精英在强迫不知情的公民做选择？