毫无疑问,欧盟有更大的问题需要处理。但从小的方面来看,这次纠纷表明了欧洲一体化面临的挑战,以及在克服由来已久的民族主义冲动方面,欧洲开放的边界存在的局限性。
Tensions among the 19 countries that use the euro have mounted as Greece teeters perilouslyclose to defaulting on its debt.
随着希腊债务违约的风险加大,使用欧元的19个国家间的关系也愈加紧张。
Yet history has its own currency in Europe, which even a common currency has yet toovercome. Back in March, officials in Paris wrote a letter to the European authorities insistingthat the Battle of Waterloo, which took place on June 18, 1815, and altered the shape ofEuropean history, had a deep and damaging resonance in the collective Frenchconsciousness.
不过在欧洲,各家自有通行的历史论断,即便使用统一货币也不能改变这一点。今年3月,巴黎的官员致函欧盟当局,坚称滑铁卢战役深深伤害了法国民众的集体情感。这场于1815年6月18日爆发的战役改变了欧洲历史的格局。
France protested Belgium’s plans for its original coin by saying that basking in France’s defeatthreatened to undermine European unity, troubled enough already. The 2 coin, it said, couldspur an “unfavorable reaction in France. In Belgium, the victory embodied in the 2.50 coin isbeing lauded as if the tiny country had itself triumphed on the battlefield.
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