But, at a time when northern European citizens are full of resentment against banks and seething with anger over transfers to the south, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her peers did not want to ask their taxpayers to pay for a partner country’s mistakes.
但是，在北欧人民强烈反对银行、反感向南欧的转移支付的当口，德国总理默克尔及其同道并不想要求他们的纳税人为伙伴国的错误买单。