朔伊布勒將卸任德國財(cái)長

Wolfgang Schäuble, the eurozone’s most powerful advocate of fiscal rectitude, is to step down as Germany’s finance minister, in what amounts to a momentous changing-of-the-guard in European financial policymaking.

歐元區(qū)最具實(shí)權(quán)的財(cái)政紀(jì)律捍衛(wèi)者沃爾夫?qū)?bull;朔伊布勒(Wolfgang Schäuble)將不再擔(dān)任德國財(cái)政部長，這意味著歐洲金融政策制定守衛(wèi)者的一次重大換崗。

Mr Schäuble, who will now become speaker of the Bundestag, was reviled by countries like Greece as an architect of austerity. But he was also seen as the most passionately pro-European minister in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government, a man deeply committed to closer EU integration.

現(xiàn)在將擔(dān)任聯(lián)邦議院(Bundestag)議長的朔伊布勒作為緊縮政策的設(shè)計(jì)師，曾受到希臘等國家的譴責(zé)。但是，此前他也被視為安格拉•默克爾(Angela Merkel)總理領(lǐng)導(dǎo)的政府中最熱心擁護(hù)歐洲事業(yè)的部長級(jí)官員，發(fā)自內(nèi)心地致力于推進(jìn)歐盟一體化。

News of his move came just three days after elections in which Ms Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU bloc suffered their worst result since 1949 and the rightwing, anti-immigration Alternative for Germany won seats in the Bundestag for the first time.

他將更換職務(wù)的消息傳出三天前，默克爾領(lǐng)導(dǎo)的保守派基民盟/基社盟(CDU/CSU)執(zhí)政聯(lián)盟遭遇自1949年以來最糟糕的選舉結(jié)果，而反移民的右翼政黨德國新選擇黨(AfD)首次贏得聯(lián)邦議院席位。

With the German political landscape now more fragmented than it has been for decades, Ms Merkel faces the prospect of trying to form an unprecedented three-way coalition government with the liberal Free Democrats (FDP) and Greens, two parties that have widely divergent views on the EU and eurozone reform.

隨著德國政壇出現(xiàn)幾十年來最嚴(yán)重的碎片化格局，默克爾面臨著與自由民主黨(FDP)和綠黨組成史無前例的三方聯(lián)合政府的前景;后兩個(gè)政黨在歐盟和歐元區(qū)改革問題上持有極為不同的觀點(diǎn)。

Mr Schäuble’s exit could make it more likely that the finance ministry will go to the FDP, which has long had the role in its sights. The party has taken a harder line on the eurozone than Ms Merkel and called for a Greek exit from the single currency.

朔伊布勒的退出意味著，長期覬覦財(cái)政部長職務(wù)的自由民主黨更有可能如愿。該黨在歐元區(qū)問題上的立場比默克爾更強(qiáng)硬，曾經(jīng)呼吁希臘退出單一貨幣。

Experts said Mr Schäuble’s departure will plunge eurozone governance into uncertainty just as Emmanuel Macron unveils ambitious plans to reform the EU and bolster the single currency area.

專家們表示，朔伊布勒不再擔(dān)任財(cái)長將使歐元區(qū)的治理陷入不確定性，而埃馬紐埃爾•馬克龍(Emmanuel Macron)剛剛拿出改革歐盟和加強(qiáng)單一貨幣區(qū)域的雄心勃勃的計(jì)劃。

In a speech this week in Paris, the French president reiterated his desire for a common eurozone budget supervised by a finance minister — an idea viewed with scepticism by many in Berlin, including the FDP, who fear it may lead to risk sharing and fiscal transfers.

法國總統(tǒng)本周在巴黎發(fā)表演講時(shí)重申，他希望創(chuàng)建歐元區(qū)共同預(yù)算，并由一名財(cái)政部長監(jiān)督;這一構(gòu)想在柏林招致很多人(包括德國自由民主黨)的疑慮，他們擔(dān)心共同預(yù)算可能導(dǎo)致風(fēng)險(xiǎn)分擔(dān)和財(cái)政轉(zhuǎn)移支付。