Dark prophecies are often wrong, but they may also become self-fulfilling. Let’s be honest: playing Cassandra nowadays is not only tempting in a media world where “good news is no news”; it actually seems more justified than ever.
黑暗预言通常不会是对的，但也不是没有自我实现的可能。坦白讲，如今扮演凶兆预言家不仅成为一直信奉“没消息便是好消息”的媒体的热衷之事，而且看上去前所未有地明智。对欧盟来说，情况从来没有那样严重过。