Indeed, she had no choice but to concede and agree to far-reaching changes to the EU’s new fiscal compact that will ease refinancing of the crisis countries and their banks. The German dogma of “no payments without counter-performance and control” was thus off the table, and the bargain struck in the early hours of the morning was exactly the opposite of what she had wanted.
事实上，默克尔别无选择，只能让步并同意欧盟新财政契约的深刻变化——放松对危机国家及其银行的再融资。德国的“没有对等表现和控制，就不给钱”立场已经破产，当天早晨所进行的激烈讨价还价正好与默克尔的如意算盘背道而驰。德国联邦议会尚未在当天晚些时候点头批准，财政契约便已经被阉割得不成模样了。