朔伊布勒將卸任德國財長

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)最具實權(quán)的財政紀律捍衛(wèi)者沃爾夫?qū)?bull;朔伊布勒(Wolfgang Schäuble)將不再擔任德國財政部長，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)在將擔任聯(lián)邦議院(Bundestag)議長的朔伊布勒作為緊縮政策的設計師，曾受到希臘等國家的譴責。但是，此前他也被視為安格拉•默克爾(Angela Merkel)總理領導的政府中最熱心擁護歐洲事業(yè)的部長級官員，發(fā)自內(nèi)心地致力于推進歐盟一體化。

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.

他將更換職務的消息傳出三天前，默克爾領導的保守派基民盟/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;后兩個政黨在歐盟和歐元區(qū)改革問題上持有極為不同的觀點。

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，長期覬覦財政部長職務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，朔伊布勒不再擔任財長將使歐元區(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單一貨幣區(qū)域的雄心勃勃的計劃。

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)表演講時重申，他希望創(chuàng)建歐元區(qū)共同預算，并由一名財政部長監(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，他們擔心共同預算可能導致風險分擔和財政轉(zhuǎn)移支付。