经济危机、财政巩固政策、大规模防御手段升级、国家间依存度不断提高以及全球威胁（从恐怖主义、核扩散、气候变化，资源缺乏以及流行病）都不可能由各国独自应对，在此背景下，欧洲领导人尝试利用该协议在实际行动和理想之间实现某种平衡。
The treaties mark an attempt to balance action and ambition in a context of economic crisis, fiscal consolidation, large-scale defense transformations, increasing interdependencies, and global threats – from terrorism and nuclear proliferation to climate change, resource scarcity, and epidemics – that are impossible to tackle unilaterally.