欧洲一体化之殇

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摘要：欧洲一体化是二战后欧洲政治家们试图复兴欧洲的伟大政治实验，欧元的诞生是这一进程中具有重大意义的里程碑，但从希腊等国开始的欧债危机使欧盟前景堪忧。
Hints:
eurozone
Brussels
Medef
Marie-Christine Oghly
Ile de France
主持：reallyyan
校对：jushua
翻译：baizhixian
答疑：lsy34Now back in the glory days when the eurozone wasn't buckling under a mountain of debt and haunted by doubts about its very existence, it was quite fashionable for politicians in Brussels to muse about total, political union, that ultimate dream that the continent might one day become a single entity rival in size and power to the United States of America. But that was then. Germany may still be singing the federalist tune, but most of the parties topping the polls in the current French and Greek election campaigns clearly disagree. And there are many others like them across the union. Given the turmoil, what do businesses think though?
Last week, the French employers' association, Medef, stepped up with a robust defence of the federalist idea. Marie-Christine Oghly, president of Medef for the Ile de France region and head of the French association of female business leaders, stepped into our Paris studio to tell me more.回想繁荣时期，当欧元区的国家没有成堆债务的压力，也未经受人们对其存在的合理性的怀疑，那时对于布鲁塞尔（欧盟）的政客们而言，最潮的事是遥想建立一个完整的政治联盟，那是一个终极梦想：有朝一日，欧洲大陆能成为一个单独的实体，在规模和影响力上与美国相抗衡。但那是过去的事了，德国仍然主张联邦制主义，但在当前法国和希腊选举中赢得大选的多数执政党显然不同意德国的做法，联盟中也有许多其他成员国像他们一样。在混乱中，商界方面又是怎么看的呢？
上周，法国雇主协会MEDEF对于联邦主义的想法表示了强烈的支持。玛丽-克里斯廷•欧格丽(Marie-Christine Oghly)，法国雇主协会主席以及法国女性商业领袖协会会长走进了我们在巴黎的演播室，告诉我更多这方面的事。