French President François Hollande is constantly flirting with the idea of building a new Latin bloc, in which Spain and Italy would join France in the struggle against fiscal austerity. In this vision, Latin superiority consists in a more expansive view of the state’s capacity to secure incomes and create wealth, and less of the “Protestant” obsession with the individual’s work.
普林斯顿—越来越多的人用两分法看待欧洲。法国总统奥朗德一直在挤眉弄眼地意欲建立新的拉丁区，让西班牙和意大利加入法国的反对财政紧缩阵营。在这一点上，拉丁优势形成了一个更广的关于国家确保收入和创造财富、更少地沉迷于个人工作的“新教主义”的观点。