去年,当欧洲各国的货币政策制定者开始在法兰克福的欧洲央行(European Central Bank)开会,为新欧元区设定利率时,他们在会上讲的是英文。
When monetary policymakers from around Europe began meeting at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt last year to set interest rates for the new Euroland, they held their deliberations in English.
简单地说,长期以来法国的欧洲政策是提出一些新的念头,然后让急于献殷勤的德国人为之埋单。
Put simply, its Europe policy has long consisted of coming up with the ideas, and getting the eager-to-please Germans to pay for them.
事实上,欧洲央行的欧洲系统性风险委员会和英国的新财政政策委员会(FPC)职能相似。
Indeed, the ECB's European Systemic Risk Board serves a function that is similar to the United Kingdom's new Financial Policy Committee (FPC).
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