It should come as no surprise that, with national governments’ parochialism impeding joint EU action, financial markets are using what the communists used to call “salami tactics” to slice away at the Union by attacking its member countries one by one. Indeed, the European Parliament and the European Commission have been sidelined, while a new management model for Europe has emerged: Germany makes the decisions, France gives the press conferences, and the rest nod in agreement (except the British, who have chosen isolationism once again).
在国家政府的狭隘观念阻碍欧盟采取联合行动的情况下，金融市场利用共产主义者曾经提出的“香肠战术”对欧盟成员国各个击破，并籍此削弱欧盟的势力并不是什么怪事。事实上，欧洲议会和欧盟委员会已经被挤到一边，同时出现了一整套新的欧洲管理模式：德国进行决策，法国召开发布会，其余国家点头同意（再次选择孤立主义的英国不在其列）。