In other words, EU leaders began to complicate fiscal governance, ultimately creating an inefficient, inescapable labyrinth of regulation and bureaucracy. As fiscal metrics become increasingly intricate, monitoring efforts will become ever easier to undermine.
危机爆发后，3%赤字目标成了无情的紧缩政策的焦点——人类学家格尔茨（Clifford Geertz）将这种形式称为“内卷化”，当一个过程因外部或内部压力而加剧而不是变化时就发生了内卷化。换句话说，欧盟领导人开始强化财政治理，最终形成了不可避免的低效监管和官僚主义难题。随着财政指标变得越来越复杂，监控财政行为越来越容易糊弄。