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.
太多的会议，成果却太少。自2010年希腊危机爆发以来，欧盟(European Union)领导人已经召开了不下15次峰会。他们提出了5项宏大的计划，追加提案的数量则更多。有7个欧元区国家的政府首脑在债务危机的直接影响下更迭——包括意大利前总理西尔维奥•贝卢斯科尼(Silvio Berlusconi)和希腊前总理乔治•帕潘德里欧(George Papandreou)，他们分别被技术派官员马里奥•蒙蒂(Mario Monti)和卢卡斯•帕帕季莫斯(Lucas Papademos)取代。然而，就所取得的实质性成果而言，得分却少得可怜。