But there is a realization across the EU that sacrifices must be made to preserve the European social model.

但整个欧盟也认识到他们必须做出牺牲以维护此种欧洲社会模式。

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The European social model is unsustainable without higher economic growth and less wasteful public expenditure.

欧洲的社会模式不能继续存在下去，没有更高的经济增长和较少浪费掉的公共开支。

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The problem is that the “European social model” has become, too often, a synonym for a very expensive way of doing things.

现在的问题是欧洲的社会模式已经，至少太经常，变成了一种非常昂贵的生产模式的同义词。

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Crucially, the European social model also enjoyed an amazingly low degree of external competition.

ECONOMIST: European politics

"I think in order to make progress we have to answer those in a clear way - and in particular we have got to show how you can have a new European social model for today's world, " he told the FT.

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But there is a basic clash between those like Blair, summit host Jose Maria Aznar of Spain and Silvio Berlusconi of Italy -- who want to free up labour markets -- and those like France and Belgium. who retain enthusiasm for the "European Social Model" with a heavy emphasis on workers' rights.

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