Less than one week before Papandreou dropped his bombshell, eurozone leaders had spoken unequivocally: “The introduction of the European Semester has fundamentally changed the way our fiscal and economic policies are coordinated at European level, with co-ordination at EU level now taking place before national decisions are taken.” Simply put, pan-eurozone financial governance had supposedly won the day.
在帕潘德里欧抛出这个重磅炸弹前不到一周，欧元区领导人明确地说：“引入‘欧洲学期’（European Semester）从根本上改变了在我们欧洲层面上进行财政和经济政策协调的办法，现在，欧盟层面的合作将先于国家层面的决策发生。”简言之，泛欧元区财政治理的时代已经开始了。