But appearances proved to be deceptive. A minor problem (at least in scale) like Cyprus, when combined with an almost unbelievable degree of incompetence among the “troika” (the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund), was enough to turn a molehill into a mountainous crisis.
柏林——就在几星期前，最严重的欧洲金融危机似乎已经过去。金融秩序正在恢复之中。但事实证明表象并不可靠。像塞浦路斯那样一个次要问题（至少从规模上看的确如此），在“三驾马车”（欧盟委员会、欧洲央行和国际货币基金组织）令人近乎难以置信的无能衬托下，足以让原本无关紧要的琐事演变为一场巨大的危机。