There are a number of schemes floating around for leveraging Germany’s lower borrowing costs to help its partner countries, beyond simply expanding the ECB’s balance sheet. For meaningful burden-sharing to work, however, eurozone leaders must stop dreaming that the single currency can survive another 20 or 30 years without much greater political union.
现在广为流传着一些利用德国的低借贷成本来帮助其伙伴国家，而不是简单地扩大欧洲央行的资产负债表的方案。然而，为了让责任分担起到作用，欧元区领导得停止幻想在没有更大的政治联盟的情况下单一货币还能存活二三十年。