It is one thing to back the “European project” when the idea is to bind Germany so tightly to France that never again will anybody think it worthwhile to wage a war over what language is spoken in Alsace-Lorraine. It is another when the European project means that French workers face competition from Polish plumbers, Romanian farmers, and Turkish shop clerks.
当法国认为与德国结成紧密的伙伴就不会再有人为阿尔萨斯-洛林地区应该使用何种语言而大动干戈时，它支持了“欧洲计划”。可当欧洲计划意味着法国工人面临来自波兰的水管工、罗马尼亚的农民和土耳其的店员的竞争时就完全是另一码事了。