瑞典反对欧洲统一货币的声音越来越强，56%的选民投票要求保留瑞典克朗，这一点与瑞典政府和商界领袖的看法相悖。丹麦在三年前投票反对欧元，现在瑞典也投了反对票。

注释：
1.electorate n. 有选举权者 2.jubilation n.庆祝
3.banish vt. 驱逐；消除 4.apparatus n. 机关；机构
5.referendum n. 公民投票 6.counterpart n.相对应的人
7.deceptive adj.欺骗性的 8.cede vt. 放弃
9.skepticism n. 怀疑论 10.binging agj. 有约束力的

Euro Campaign

ANCHOR
More now on Sweden’s rejection of the single currency. 56% of the country’s electorate voted to keep the Kronor against the wishes of their own government and business leaders. And the vote comes three years after Denmark also voted against the Euro.
The decision doesn’t bode well for Euro campaigners in Britain.

CORRESPONDENT
Jubilation in the “No” camp as Swedes join fellow Scandinavians, the Danes, to vote against. Now Britons are unlikely to get the chance to vote before 2006. The U.K. government is in principle pro Euro, but this is seen as effectively banishing PM Tony Blair’s chances of calling a successful ballot on the issue until when and if he wins the next election.

ADAM AFRIYIE, U.K. BUSINESS FOR STERLING
Basically, the whole apparatus of Sweden was behind getting into the Euro. Now, what this show is even though public opinion was very evenly balanced coming up to the vote, actually they’ve got an enormous bloody nose there. So whether or not other prime ministers, whether or not our prime minister here in Britain will risk joining the Euro under those circumstances or risk calling a referendum under those circumstances, I think has been put in doubt.

CORRESPONDENT
Like their Swedish counterparts, British officials cite their country’s superior economic growth compared to the Euro zones, but experts claim that’s deceptive short-termism.

KATINKA BARYSCH, CENTER FOR EUROPEAN REFORM
Obviously, the decision whether to give up your currency is a long term one, potentially forever. Now looking at current growth rates, it’s very misleading, because the reason why the Euro zone growth is so low is mainly because of Germany. Germany’s got its own problems that have little do with the Euro.

CORRESPONDENT
Economists cite inflexible labor markets and still the after effects of reuniting East and West Germany in 1990. Neither of those in particular is a problem here in Britain. Nonetheless, there are plenty of people, financial professionals, bus drivers, you name it, who question the wisdom of the Bank of England ceding control of interest rates to Frankfurt.

MIKE SMITH HALVORSEN, CORPORATE FX
I think it shows a lack of control and a lack of confidence in general terms in the ECB’s management of Euro policy.

CORRESPONDENT
The British public has a history of Euro skepticism going back decades.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE
I think if another country feels that they can stay out of it for longer and survive economically, then I think it’s sending a signal to us that we’re not going to do ourselves any damage by doing the same thing.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE
They’ve obviously thought it through very carefully, they’ve come to a decision, the decision is “No”. I think that will make people in this country think twice as well.

CORRESPONDENT
Sweden’s “No” vote isn’t binding . The government there could in any case abandon the Kronor in favor of the Euro. Though one “Yes” is enough to join, one “No” is far from enough to kill the issue. And like in Denmark and Britain, talk will inevitably soon come round to when the next referendum will be.

ANCHOR
Well, Britain’s official line is that a referendum is still not ruled out within the lifetime of the current party, when it’s even after the Swedish rejection.

欧元之争

主播
现在，瑞典反对欧洲统一货币的声音越来越强，56%的选民投票要求保留瑞典克朗，这一点与瑞典政府和商界领袖的看法相悖。丹麦在三年前投票反对欧元，现在瑞典也投了反对票。
这一结果对英国的欧元支持者们来说可不是什么好预兆。

记者
在瑞典步斯堪的纳维亚老乡——丹麦人之后尘投了反对票以后，反对欧元的阵营欢声一片。现在，英国已经不太可能有机会在2006年前进行投票了。原则上，英国政府还是赞成加入欧元区的，但人们认为这种态度正在有效地剥夺首相托尼•布莱尔在成功投票这个问题上的机会，除非他能赢得下一次选举。

亚当•阿夫瑞伊，英国货币商务网
基本上，整个瑞典政府是支持加入欧元区的。这意味着即便投票结果反映公众观点只有微弱的偏向，实际上他们还是遭到了极大挫折。所以我认为，其他国家的首脑或是我们英国的首相在这种情况下冒险加入欧元区，或是组织一次全民公决的可能性并不大。进行比较，但是专家们认为那是一种具有欺骗性的短暂优势。

卡汀卡•巴瑞斯基，欧洲改革中心
很明显，关于是否放弃本国货币的决定必须是长久之计，甚至是永久之计。现在来看看各国经济的增长率，这很容易引起误解，因为欧元区增长率低的主要原因就是德国。事实上，德国有她自己的问题，那与欧元没有关系。

记者
经济学家列出的原因是：固定的劳动力市场以及1990年东西德统一的后遗症。但这些问题对于英国来说都不是问题。不过，还是有许多人——金融业人士，公共汽车司机，你想得出的所有人——必有疑问，他们认为英格兰银行将利率控制权交与法兰克福的欧洲中央银行不一定是明智之举。

麦克•史密斯•霍尔华生，Corporate FX
总的来说，我认为，欧洲中央银行在欧元政策的管理方面有点失控和信心不足。

记者
过去的几十年中，英国民众一直对欧元持怀疑态度。

男被访者
我认为如果另外一个国家感觉他们能挺住不参与且经济表现不差，那么我认为这是向我们发出的一个信号，如果我们做同样的事情，也不会有什么损失。

男被访者
很明显，他们进行了认真的考虑，最后他们做出了决定，答案是不。我想，英国人民也会因他们的答案三思而后行的。

记者
瑞典的投票结果并没有约束力，瑞典政府仍然可以随时以欧元取代克郎。一个“是”足以促成此事，但“不”却远不能消灭这种可能。丹麦和英国的情形不一样，人们很快就会谈到下一次公决何时进行的问题。

主播
好的，英国的官方口径是这样的，不排除在目前执政党任期内举行全民公决的可能，即便是在瑞典拒绝加入欧元区之后。