No way, José. Portugal’s prime minister, José Sócrates, has become the latest political figure to pay the escalating cost of the eurozone sovereign debt crisis. After failing to get parliamentary support for a package of austerity measures, he quit on Wednesday, causing not just Lisbon but the entire European Union a political headache. A bail-out of Portugal looks inevitable. The wider lesson for Brussels, however, is that if the EU cannot agree a strategy to resolve the euro’s structural and governance flaws, Mr Sócrates won’t be the last politician to lose his job.
没门儿，若泽。欧元区主权债务危机的代价不断飙升，葡萄牙总理若泽•苏格拉底(José Sócrates)成为最新一名付出代价的政界人士。在未能争取到国会支持一套紧缩措施后，他在周三提出辞职，此举给葡萄牙乃至整个欧盟带来政治难题。纾困葡萄牙似乎不可避免。不过，对欧盟而言，更具全局性的教训在于，如果欧盟不能达成一项战略以解决欧元的结构性问题和治理缺陷，那么在苏格拉底之后还会有别的政界人士被迫下台。