(word)考研英语阅读英文原刊《经济学人》：法国地方政府.docVIP

考研英语阅读英文原刊《经济学人》：法国地方政府 　French local government 　　法国地方政府 　　Slimming down 　　瘦身中 　　France tells local governments to cut the fat 　　法国当局下令地方政府“减肥” 　　WHEN Claude Monet lived near the Seine at Argenteuil, he painted white canvas sails and river banks. Today, Argenteuil is part of the suburban sprawl west of Paris, and is more famous for being the most indebted large town in France. A recent report from the Cour des Comptes, the national audit body, told the town hall to take urgent measures to curb the deficit “in line with the gravity of the situation”. 　　克劳德·莫奈在阿让特伊的塞纳河附近时，画过白色帆船和塞纳河畔。如今，阿让特伊只是巴黎西郊无计划扩展地区中的一部分，并且更是因负债累累而臭名远扬。法国审计法院Courdes Comptes 已经命令当地市府大厅采取紧急措施，抑制财政赤字，要和“地球引力”方向保持一致。 　　Across the country, town halls are facing a budget squeeze. As part of its effort to control the national deficit, which this year is yet again set to bust the euro zones 3% rule, President Franois Hollandes Socialist government has promised 50 billion of budget savings from 2015 to 2017. Of this, it says 11 billion will come from reduced transfers to local government. But persuading town halls to apply such cuts may prove the most difficult piece of the French deficit puzzle. 　　当前全国上下、各地市府大厅均面临财政紧缩的困境。为了有效控制国家财政赤字局面，实现欧元区规定的不超过3%的赤字目标，法国总统弗朗索瓦·奥朗德所在的社会主义政府已经承诺2015 年至2017 年削减财政支出500 亿英镑。而这500 亿英镑中，110 亿为中央政府对地方政府的拨款项削减额。但是，要说服当地政府接受这样的财政紧缩政策恐怕是实施财政紧缩政策项目过程中最棘手的部分吧。 　　Argenteuil is poorer than the average French town, and its unemployment rate is nearly 17%. The share of residents living in subsidised public housing, in the concrete towers that ring the town, is twice the national average. And like many French towns, Argenteuils aspirations to first-class public services exceed its ability to finance them. 　　和法国其它小镇相比，阿让特伊的经济发展较落后，且它的失业率几乎高达17%。住政府补助房和外围混凝土塔的人数是全国平均值的两倍。和法国很多小镇一样，阿让特伊也想提供一流的社会公共服务，但这笔支出却不是它现在的财政所能承受的。 　　Overlooking the river, a vast new plate-glass building house the Argenteuil-Bezons Agglomeration, a new layer of local government created several years ago to run join