But creating that architecture is a daunting task, which has taken Europe decades and is still ongoing. Successive quandaries and crises have revealed the flaws in the EU’s institutional design, and each (painstaking) upgrade has made the European project that much stronger.
但营造这样的制度框架是艰巨的任务，欧洲花了几十年，并且仍在前进。一个接一个的困难和危机暴露了欧盟制度设计存在缺陷，而每一次（艰难）的新生让欧洲工程变得越来越强大。在不采取家长作风、认识到自身也在不断改进中的基础上，欧盟应该更多地参与亚洲的现有结构，在可行支出提供自己的经验——比如在2015年将东盟建设成有三大支柱（政治-军事、经济和社会-文化）支撑的设计。