The EU’s malaise is self-inflicted, owing to an unprecedented succession of bad economic decisions, beginning with the creation of the euro. Though intended to unite Europe, in the end the euro has divided it; and, in the absence of the political will to create the institutions that would enable a single currency to work, the damage is not being undone.
但欧洲并不是受害者。诚然，美国经济治理有问题；但是，美国并没有设法让危机的全球震波涌向欧洲，没有。欧盟的问题是自己造成的，来自前所未有的持续经济决策失当，而首先就是欧元的创立。尽管创立欧元的初衷是统一欧洲，但最终欧元却在分裂欧洲；而在缺乏建立单一货币运转所需要的机构的意愿的情况下，欧元所造成的伤害也无从消除。