So many meetings, so little achieved. European Union leaders have held no fewer than 15 summits since the Greek crisis blew up in 2010. There have been five grand plans and many more incremental proposals. Heads of seven eurozone governments have changed as a direct result of the debt crisis – including the replacement of Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi and Greece’s George Papandreou by the technocrats Mario Monti and Lucas Papademos. Yet the tally of real achievements is deplorably small.
太多的會議，成果卻太少。自2010年希臘危機爆發以來，歐盟(European Union)領導人已經召開了不下15次峯會。他們提出了5項宏大的計劃，追加提案的數量則更多。有7個歐元區國家的政府首腦在債務危機的直接影響下更迭——包括義大利前總理西爾維奧•貝魯斯柯尼(Silvio Berlusconi)和希臘前總理喬治•帕潘德里歐(George Papandreou)，他們分別被技術派官員馬力歐•蒙蒂(Mario Monti)和盧卡斯•帕帕季莫斯(Lucas Papademos)取代。然而，就所取得的實質性成果而言，得分卻少得可憐。