Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and German Chancellor Angela Merkel now have the opportunity to rise to the occasion as European statesmen. Since Tsipras’s election in January, German officials have barely been able to contain their fury that a left-wing upstart government of a tiny, bankrupt country would dare to challenge one of the world’s great economies.
希腊总理亚历克西斯·齐普拉斯和德国总理默克尔现在有机会挺身而出成为欧洲真正的政治家。自齐普拉斯一月当选后，德国官员几乎无法遏制自身的愤怒，一个小小破产国家自命不凡的左翼政府竟然敢于挑战全世界最大的经济体之一。比方说财政部长沃尔夫冈·朔伊布勒就曾多次试图煽动希腊退出欧元区。