Or to put it another way, unless a country like France is prepared to makea much greater sacrifice(for the good of the currency union) of its own government's budget-making powers than it currently seems prepared to do, it is quite hard to paint a rosy picture for the eurozone.
"It was clear to me he had made the transformation from a boy into a man and a leader prepared to make the ultimate sacrificefor his country, " Littrell said.