这并不奇怪，因为欧盟机构基本上是通过给予小国以大规模经济优势而帮助它们克服狭小的弱点。 这些大规模经济优势以往都是被大国所占据。
In general, the big EU countries are still performing badly, in contrast to the smaller members – hardly surprising, given that the EU is basically an institution to help the smaller countries overcome the drawback of their size by extending the agglomeration advantages that formerly were reserved to the bigger countries.