Hardly anyone understands our dogmatic austerity policy, which goes against all experience, and we are considered largely off-course, if not heading into oncoming traffic. It is still not too late to change direction, but now we have only days and weeks, perhaps months, rather than years.
我们德国人明白我们身上的泛欧洲责任吗？现在看来，显然不明白。事实上，德国几乎从未像现在那样孤立过。几乎没有人理解我们一根筋的紧缩政策，这与历史经验完全背道而驰，大部分人认为，说轻了我们是偏离正道，说重了我们已经走火入魔了。现在改变方向还为时未晚，但留给我们的时间只有几天、几周，也许是几个月，反正几年是肯定拖不起了。