当然，这就意味着欧盟应该寻求扩展其跨大西洋的思维以便欧盟和美国在定义—进而保护—它们在世界上的共同利益方面更紧密地合作。 两者的总人口只不过占世界总人口的百分之十多一点。
That means, of course, that the EU should seek to widen its transatlantic thinking so that the EU and the United States cooperate more closely on defining – and thus protecting – their common interests in a world where together they account for little more than 10% of the total population.