Now that more than two-thirds of Irish voters have reversed their country’s earlier opposition to the Lisbon treaty – with only the Czech Republic’s Europhobic president, Václav Klaus, holding out against it – the focus is on who will fill these two jobs. And that, in turn, has triggered a round of bitter political squabbling that threatens to negate the entire idea of a much more powerful European voice on the global stage.
现在已经有三分之二以上的爱尔兰选民改变了态度，不再迫使国家投票反对《里斯本条约》——只有捷克共和国病态惧怕欧元的总统瓦茨拉夫·克劳斯仍然对条约抱着坚决否定的态度——当前问题的焦点是由谁来出任这两个职位。而这终于又引发了新一轮激烈的政治争吵，在全球舞台上大幅度提升欧洲话语权的整个理念都险些遭到颠覆。