It was right too to introduce tighter budgetary discipline to enforce these decisions and to bring the Community spending under better control.

引入更严格的预算纪律，执行这些决定，并更好控制开支，也是正确之举。

Just how catastrophic the situation becomes depends on whether policymakers maintain budgetary discipline, withstand pressure from angry older voters and, crucially, are willing to inflict pain on populations now in order to save future generations from more later on.

这种局面会变得多么有灾难性，取决于政策制定者是否能坚持遵守预算纪律、是否能顶住愤怒的老年选民的压力，以及很关键的一点：是否愿意现在给民众带来痛苦，从而使未来几代人免受更大的痛苦。