That is because Germany, by far the EU’s strongest economy, has enforced a strategy for overcoming the eurozone crisis that worked for Germany at the beginning of the millennium, but under completely different internal and external economic conditions. For the distressed southern European states, the German-backed mixture of austerity and structural reforms is proving fatal, because the decisive third and fourth components – debt relief and growth – are missing.
究其原因是欧盟第一经济强国德国在截然相反的内外经济环境下，于新千年伊始执行了曾在其本国行之有效的战胜欧元区危机的策略。事实证明因为缺少决定性的第三和第四因素（即债务减免和经济增长），深受德国支持的紧缩辅以结构改革的策略对身处困境的南欧国家构成了致命的打击。