No way, José. Portugal’s prime minister, José Sócrates, has become the latest political figure to pay the escalating cost of the eurozone sovereign debt crisis. After failing to get parliamentary support for a package of austerity measures, he quit on Wednesday, causing not just Lisbon but the entire European Union a political headache. A bail-out of Portugal looks inevitable. The wider lesson for Brussels, however, is that if the EU cannot agree a strategy to resolve the euro’s structural and governance flaws, Mr Sócrates won’t be the last politician to lose his job.
沒門兒，若澤。歐元區主權債務危機的代價不斷飆升，葡萄牙總理若澤?蘇格拉底(José Sócrates)成為最新一名付出代價的政界人士。在未能爭取到國會支持一套緊縮措施后，他在周三提出辭職，此舉給葡萄牙乃至整個歐盟帶來政治難題。紓困葡萄牙似乎不可避免。不過，對歐盟而言，更具全局性的教訓在于，如果歐盟不能達成一項戰略以解決歐元的結構性問題和治理缺陷，那么在蘇格拉底之后還會有別的政界人士被迫下臺。