Europe, with more people than any nation except China and India, and the largest GDP in the world, must become one of the central pillars of such a world by projecting what has come to be called “soft power” – the power and influence of ideas and example. Indeed, Europe’s success is due in part to its promotion of a set of values that, while quintessentially European, are at the same time global.
除了中国和印度，欧洲的人口要比其他任何国家都多，其GDP也最大。它必须成为这样一个世界的中心支柱之一。其方式就是发挥人们所说的“软实力”，也就是观念和范例所发挥出的实力和影响力。的确，欧洲的成功部分要归于其促进一整套价值观念。这些价值观在精髓上是欧洲的，但是同时也是全球的。