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BEFORE the European Union summit on January30th, Italys new prime minister, Mario Monti, willhave visited the German chancellor, Angela Merkel,the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and theBritish prime minister, David Cameron, whom hesaw on January 18th. Herman Van Rompuy,president of the European Council, has been to seehim in Rome. And the French, German and Italianleaders plan a pre-meeting just before the summit. 欧盟峰会将于1月30日召开，在此前夕，意大利新总理马里奥?蒙蒂将访问德国总理安格拉?默克尔和法国总统尼古拉?萨科齐。此前，他还于1月18日访问了英国首相戴维?卡梅隆。欧盟理事会常任主席赫尔曼?范龙佩也将在罗马与其会面。此外，法、德、意三国领导人还计划在峰会召开前举行一次预会。 It is a far cry from most of the second half of last year, when Europes leaders did as much asthey could to avoid being caught in a photograph with Mr Montis scandal-taintedpredecessor, Silvio Berlusconi. Italy, it seems fair to say, is back at the top table. And thatcould have far-reaching effects on the euro crisis. For, as he is making increasingly plain, MrMontis ideas on how to resolve it are significantly at odds with those of the Germans whohave until now been doing most of the orderingand choosing pretty thin gruel. 这可真与去年下半年的情况大不相同，那时，欧洲各国领导人竭力避免与丑闻缠身的西尔维奥?贝卢斯科尼同台亮相。而现在，似乎是时候说，意大利又重回贵宾席了。这可能对欧元危机产生深远的影响，因为蒙蒂正愈发清晰地表明在如何解决危机的问题上他与那些德国人的想法大不相同到目前为止，德国主要是作为发号施令者，却没有给出什么有效的解决措施。 | 
