As well as those chronic problems, the EU faces an acute crisis in its economic core, the 16 countries that use the single currency.

除了这些长期的问题之外，欧盟的经济核心——16个使用单一货币的国家——也面临着严重的危机。

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Core indices have continued to move up in some countries even as headline inflation Numbers have declined.

在一些国家，虽然总体通胀指数有所下降，但核心通胀指数却在持续攀升。

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If energy is excluded, as it is in other countries' measures of core inflation, prices are actually falling.

如果如其它国家计算核心通货膨胀一样把能源排除在外，价格实际上在回落。

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Banks and voters in core countries (let alone Britain, whose position in a more integrated European banking system is very muddy) would be reluctant to insure peripheral deposits.

ECONOMIST: Preventing a big European bank run

What's more, a European fund would not have to be big enough to deal with simultaneous deposit runs across all of Europe but only with ones in the periphery, since money would presumably flow to banks in core countries such as Germany.

ECONOMIST: Preventing a big European bank run

The economies in the core countries have plenty of slack, as prices are barely rising.

ECONOMIST: Europe grows apart