While some would have favored greater policy activism, Merkel’s Germany has provided a steady anchor for a eurozone struggling to end bouts of financial instability and put an end to questions about its survival as a well-functioning monetary union (one that aspires to becoming much more). A change in German leadership would, therefore, raise questions about Europe’s policy underpinning.
虽然有些人一直青睐更激进的政策行动，默克尔领导下的德国已经以其稳定的表现为一直努力结束金融危机的欧元区指明了前进的方向，并以其表现打破了人们对欧盟是否能够作为一个运行良好的货币联盟（它立志成就更多）所存在的疑虑。德国领导层的变化因而会对欧洲政策基础提出了一个挑战。