By contrast, each passing day seems to drive EU members further apart. Rather than reinventing itself, Europe, under the pressure of the crisis and its own internal contradictions, threatens to revert to the national egoism and protectionism of the past.
在这个自1929年以来发生的最严重的危机的时刻，通过巴拉克·奥巴马的当选，美国现在选择了一个真正的重新起步，已进入了重塑自身的进程。而相反，欧盟成员国之间的分裂却日益加深。欧盟不但不进行自我重塑，反而在危机和其自身内部矛盾的压力下，有回到国家利己主义和保护主义的老路上去的危险。