The crisis was always about much more than Greece: a disorderly insolvency there would threaten to pull other economies on the EU’s southern periphery, including some very big ones, into the fiscal abyss, along with major European banks and insurers. That could plunge the global economy into another financial crisis, delivering a shock equivalent to the autumn of 2008.
受危机影响的远远不只希腊：无序破产可能把欧盟南部周边经济体（包括某些大国在内）拖入财政深渊，而主要欧洲银行和保险公司也将同时倒下。全球经济将由此陷入另一场金融危机，其所造成的冲击力不亚于2008年秋。随之而来的欧元区失败将不可能无损于欧洲共同市场。