虽然欧元区的一些国家惨遭高失业率折磨，但保护主义也无法为这些国家带来比扩张性财政或货币政策（后者由欧洲中央银行实施）更好的效果。
While some countries in the eurozone suffer from high levels of unemployment, there is nothing that protectionism can do for these countries that expansionary fiscal or monetary policy (the latter by the European Central Bank) cannot do better.