Given this looming negotiation between old and new – and between rich and poor – and because Chirac has no cunning proposal for resurrecting the EU Constitution, he has sought and found a second scapegoat: Britain has, for over 20 years, benefited from a large rebate in its outsized contribution to the EU budget.
由于新老成员国—穷国与富国之间—仍不明朗的谈判，也因为希拉克没有一个聪明的计划来挽救《欧盟宪法》，他就千方百计地找到了第二只替罪羊：过去20年以来，英国由于对欧盟预算的超额贡献而获得了巨额减免。