欧元区的情况尤为不稳定，一方面公民与那些相隔遥远的技术官僚精英日益疏远；另一方面缺乏汇率，通货膨胀和公共投资等常规经济调整机制；另外对财政转移支付这种能传达真正的凝聚力界限信号的强大手段则限制过多。
The situation in the eurozone is particularly unstable, owing to citizens’ growing alienation from a distant, technocratic elite; the absence of conventional economic adjustment mechanisms (exchange rates, inflation, public investment, and so on); and tight limits on fiscal transfers, which send powerful signals about the real boundaries of cohesion.