The EU confronts huge challenges. These include accelerating innovation, deepening financial integration, protecting its security and maintaining the values of freedom, democracy and social welfare on which its society has been built since the second world war. None of this will be easy given the adverse changes the bloc now confronts, not least the political disarray in France and Germany. Yet, in confronting its future, it can build on great historic successes. The EU has, after all, managed to enlarge and extend its union over almost seven decades (and longer still if one goes back to the European Coal and Steel Community, created in 1951).
歐盟面臨巨大挑戰(zhàn)。這些挑戰(zhàn)包括加速創(chuàng)新、深化金融一體化、保護(hù)自身安全以及維護(hù)自由、民主和社會福利價值觀這些自二戰(zhàn)以來歐洲社會的基石。考慮到歐盟目前面臨的不利變化，尤其是法國和德國出現(xiàn)的政治混亂，這些事情都不容易實(shí)現(xiàn)。然而，通過直面未來的挑戰(zhàn)，歐盟可以再續(xù)它偉大的歷史性成功。畢竟，歐盟在近70年的時間里成功地?cái)U(kuò)大和擴(kuò)展了它的聯(lián)盟（如果追溯到1951年創(chuàng)建的歐洲煤鋼共同體(European Coal and Steel Community)，時間就更長了）。