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1.Markets are unlikely to wait for the EU to call a constitutional convention, debate schemes for integration and negotiate a text, only to see it buffeted in parliamentary votes and referendums.

市场不可能等待欧盟召集一个制宪会议，讨论一体化的计策，并形成谈判的文本，只能看到欧盟在议会投票和公投中遭受打击。

2.Dissent, whether expressed through referendums, elections or the debating Chambers of national parliaments, will have only a limited impact.

不同意见，不管是来自全民公决、选举还是国家的议会辩论，都只能施加有限的影响。

3.It is an identity that revolves around neutrality, and, yes, an awkward tradition of citizens' referendums.

这是一个徘徊在中立周围的身份，也是一个对公民公投尴尬的传统。

4.Unlike in places like California and Switzerland, referendums are extremely rare in Greece, with the last such vote held in 1974 when the country voted to abolish the monarchy.

和美国加州、瑞士等地不同，全民公投在希腊极其罕见，上一次公投要追溯到遥远的1974年，当时是为了废除君主制。

5.In California, for instance, voters have the right to vote on specific fiscal policies in referendums.

例如，在加利福尼亚投票人有权在公投中对特别财政政策进行投票。

6.Mr Berlusconi opted not to fight on the issues, but instead to appeal to the courts to stop the referendums happening.

贝卢斯科尼选择不在这些问题上争辩，转而向法庭献殷勤，企图阻止公投发生。

7.Most alarmingly, though, is that the Lisbon Treaty can be extended indefinitely without recourse to further treaties or referendums.

然而，更令人震惊的是，里斯本条约可以在未来不需要补充协议或全民公决的条件下无限期延长。

8.This absence, and all those lost referendums, carry a message: the great treaty-drafting machine that has kept European integration pressing forward for decades has, for now, seized up.

缺少未来计划、败北于全国公投，不难窥见如此信息：伟大的协议起草机器长达数十年忙于推动欧洲一体化，如今该机器运转失灵了。