Nonetheless, Germany must accept that the alternative to a democratically unified currency union is German economic hegemony. In the longer run, that outcome would destroy the common European project, in turn undermining Germany’s own economic prosperity and strategic security – a Bismarckian scenario from which Bismarck would have recoiled in horror.
尽管如此，德国必须接受民主统一的货币联盟的替代方案是德国经济霸权。从长期看，这一结果将摧毁共同的欧洲工程，并反过来破坏德国自身的经济繁荣和战略安全——这是俾斯麦都要不寒而栗的俾斯麦式情景。