All of this assumes that political leaders would select only a policy change that they think will be in their nation’s long-term interest. But there is also a risk that some politicians act solely out of self-interest, seizing on the economic downturn as an opportunity to get elected by promising to withdraw the country from the EMU, or by saying that they will threaten to do so if the other member countries do not agree to their proposed policy changes.
所有这些，都是假设政治领导人只选择了他们认为符合其国家长远利益的一个政策变化。但是，也有一些政治家仅仅出于自身利益，通过承诺使国家退出欧洲经济与货币联盟，或者声称如果其他成员国不同意他们提议的政策变化他们就扬言退出的方式，抓住经济下滑问题，将其作为使自己当选的机会。