朔伊布勒将卸任德国财长

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.

欧元区最具实权的财政纪律捍卫者沃尔夫冈•朔伊布勒(Wolfgang Schäuble)将不再担任德国财政部长，这意味着欧洲金融政策制定守卫者的一次重大换岗。

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.

现在将担任联邦议院(Bundestag)议长的朔伊布勒作为紧缩政策的设计师，曾受到希腊等国家的谴责。但是，此前他也被视为安格拉•默克尔(Angela Merkel)总理领导的政府中最热心拥护欧洲事业的部长级官员，发自内心地致力于推进欧盟一体化。

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.

他将更换职务的消息传出三天前，默克尔领导的保守派基民盟/基社盟(CDU/CSU)执政联盟遭遇自1949年以来最糟糕的选举结果，而反移民的右翼政党德国新选择党(AfD)首次赢得联邦议院席位。

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.

随着德国政坛出现几十年来最严重的碎片化格局，默克尔面临着与自由民主党(FDP)和绿党组成史无前例的三方联合政府的前景;后两个政党在欧盟和欧元区改革问题上持有极为不同的观点。

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着，长期觊觎财政部长职务的自由民主党更有可能如愿。该党在欧元区问题上的立场比默克尔更强硬，曾经呼吁希腊退出单一货币。

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.

专家们表示，朔伊布勒不再担任财长将使欧元区的治理陷入不确定性，而埃马纽埃尔•马克龙(Emmanuel Macron)刚刚拿出改革欧盟和加强单一货币区域的雄心勃勃的计划。

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.

法国总统本周在巴黎发表演讲时重申，他希望创建欧元区共同预算，并由一名财政部长监督;这一构想在柏林招致很多人(包括德国自由民主党)的疑虑，他们担心共同预算可能导致风险分担和财政转移支付。