In the weeks since France and the Netherlands rejected the European Union’s proposed Constitutional Treaty, the EU’s leaders have been busy pointing fingers at each other or blaming French and Dutch citizens for misunderstanding the question they were asked. But no pan-European statesman has emerged, and no major European institution has even had the courage to provide its own analysis of the current situation, much less propose a strategic scenario for the future.
在法国和荷兰对欧盟提议的宪法条约表示反对后的几周内，欧盟领导人忙于相互埋怨或责备法国和荷兰公民误解了他们需要解决的问题。但是还没有一位能代表全欧洲声音的政治家出现，也没有任何欧洲主要组织有勇气对当前形势发表自己的见解，更不用说对将来提议一个战略性计划。