Danger ahead for the mighty euro强势
欧元之危险前景
Charlemagne
查理曼大帝
Danger ahead for the mighty euro
强势欧元之危险前景
Apr 10th 2008 2008年4月10日
From The Economist print edition 经济学人印刷版
Euro-zone economies face external woes and internal tensions
欧元区经济面临内忧外患
AT THE World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2001, the mood was sombre. The dotcom bubble had burst
spectacularly, the Nasdaq stockmarket had crashed, and the American economy was tipping into recession. Yet most continental Europeans were breezily optimistic. The long years of being lectured about their inadequacies by the Anglo-Saxons were over. Europe had wisely skipped the dotcom mania, and its new currency, the euro, was giving the continent a boost. Some Europeans even dreamed of taking over as the motor of the world economy. But it was not to be, as Europe promptly fell into a deeper recession even than America.
2001年1月在达沃斯举办的世界经济论坛上，到处弥漫着悲观的情绪。网络泡沫刚刚以令人炫目的方式破裂，纳斯达克股市业已崩盘，美国经济正步入衰退期。然而大多数身处欧洲大陆的人们此时却满面春风，信心满怀。被盎格鲁撒克逊人训斥得一无是处的漫长岁月终于一去不复返了。欧洲极其精明地躲过了互联网引发的种种癫狂，它的新货币¬—欧元给整个欧洲大陆注射了一剂强心剂。一些欧洲人甚至梦想着取而代之，成为世界经济的火车头。然而随着欧洲迅即地陷入比美国更严重的经济衰退，这一切未能如愿。
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