确实，施罗德的第一次重大外交政策经验就是1999年的欧盟峰会。 当时的英法两国领导人给了这位来自柏林的政坛新人一个下马威。
Indeed, one of Schroeder’s first major foreign-policy experiences was the EU summit of 1999, where the leaders of France and Britain played rough with the newcomer from Berlin.