Europeans have reason to be worried, and they now have to face the fact that the EU is not just a common market – a mere economic community – but a global player, a cohesive political unit with shared values and common security interests. Europe’s strategic and normative interests have thus re-emerged with a vengeance; in fact, Putin has managed, almost singlehandedly, to invigorate NATO with a new sense of purpose.
欧洲有理由担忧，并且现在不得不面对一个现实，即欧盟不仅仅是一个共同市场，一个经济共同体，它也是一个全球行动者，一个团结的、拥有共同价值和安全利益的政治单元。欧洲的战略和规范利益因此意外地重新浮现；事实上，普京几乎凭借一己之力让北约有了新的使命感。