Should Germany leave the euro? It is, after all, the big country with an obvious exit option. The question becomes more pertinent after the decision by Angela Merkel, Germany’s conservative chancellor, to support Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, against Jens Weidman, her appointee as head of the Bundesbank, over plans to buy bonds of governments in difficulty. The president of the Bundesbank, Germany’s most respected institution, has now become a spokesman for conservative German eurosceptics. The ECB, Germans realise, will not remain a reincarnated Bundesbank. Once again, we are reminded that the eurozone is set to be a miserable marriage. Might a separation, however disruptive, be better?
德国是否应退出欧元区？毕竟，它是一个明显有退出选择的大国。在购买困难国家的国债问题上，持保守立场的德国总理安格拉•默克尔(Angela Merkel)决定支持欧洲央行行长马里奥•德拉吉(Mario Draghi)，反对她本人任命的德国央行(Bundesbank)行长延斯•魏德曼(Jens Weidmann)的意见，这让德国是否退出欧元区的问题显得更为恰切。作为德国最受尊敬的机构——德国央行的行长，魏德曼如今已成为保守的德国欧元怀疑论者的代言人。德国人意识到，欧洲央行将不再是德国央行的再版。这再一次提醒我们，欧元区的成立就好比是一桩悲惨的“婚姻”。那么，离开——不管后果多严重——对德国而言是一种更理想的选择吗？