After all, beyond the social misery produced by the re-institutionalized cruelty of the current global economic system, the greatest danger facing the world nowadays is that very system’s inherent instability. I don’t see any institution other than the EU that has enough size and heft to protect Europeans from a possible implosion.
然而，自相矛盾的是，人们甚至比以往更需要一个团结的欧洲。毕竟，除了当前全球经济体系重新制度化后的冷酷无情所带来的种种社会不幸之外，如今全世界所面临的最大危险，就是这个体系与生俱来的不稳定性。除了欧盟之外，我还从未看到任何组织具备如此的规模和份量能够保护欧洲人免受一次可能发生的内向爆炸。