Until yesterday when, concerned by the news that Brussels is imposing a ban on non-energy saving lightbulbs next week, I telephoned Peter Jones in central London to ask if they had any in stock.

因为看到布鲁塞尔将从下周起禁用非节能灯泡的新闻，我打电话给位于伦敦中部的Peter Jones公司问他们是否还有存货。

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“Europe deaf to farmers’ cries,” shouted the front page of one Belgian newspaper after hundreds of tractors gummed up central Brussels on July 22nd.

就在7月22日，当好几百辆卡车聚集在布鲁塞尔时，比利时一家报纸就在头版头条刊出“欧洲对奶农诉求充耳不闻”。

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They pause before an enormous Christmas tree in the Grand Place, the central square of Brussels that is surrounded by elaborately decorated old "guildhalls."

布鲁塞尔市中心竖立着一棵巨大的圣诞树，很多人也在圣诞树这儿流连忘返。

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It comes with a fancy tax-free salary, a mansion in central Brussels, an armour-plated limousine and a squad of bodyguards.

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For two hours we've been watching the Belgian police play cat and mouse with this group of English fans, and finally they trapped them in the narrow streets near the Grand Place in Central Brussels, then they charged and attacked them.

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They have yielded powers not just to Brussels, but to independent central banks (for 11 of them, to the European Central Bank in Frankfurt), and to sub-national governments in their own regions.

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