In Europe, the situation is cause for growing concern, because the global economic crisis is relentlessly laying bare the European Union’s flaws and limitations. Indeed, what Europe lost, first and foremost, with the rejection of the constitutional treaty is now obvious: its faith in itself and its common future.
在欧洲，情况越来越令人担心，因为全球经济危机正在把欧盟的缺点和局限性无情地暴露出来。事实上，随着对宪法规定的条约的蔑视，欧洲丧失的最重要的东西现在是显而易见的：它丧失了它对自身和对自己的共同的前途的信念。