你得提防那些穿着炭灰色西装的高级公务员；有时，他们内心藏着革命者。尼古拉·迪弗雷纳举止优雅、语气平和，多年来却怀揣着一个正在撼动2027年法国总统大选竞选格局的想法：注销法国由欧洲央行（ECB）持有的那部分债务——约占总债务的16.6%，即5990亿欧元。
You have to be wary of senior civil servants in charcoal gray suits; sometimes, they are hiding revolutionaries. With his polished manners and calm voice, Nicolas Dufrêne has for years harbored an idea that is shaking up the campaign for the 2027 French presidential election: canceling the portion of France's debt held by the European Central Bank (ECB) – about 16.6% of the total, or €599 billion.
自他与专攻气候转型的经济学家阿兰·格朗让在《一种生态货币》（Une monnaie écologique，2020年）一书中提出这一建议以来，已过去六年。从2020年5月联合另外六位法国经济学家在《世界报》发表首篇联名评论文章，到2021年2月由全球150位经济学家签署、在八家欧洲报纸刊登的另一篇联名文章，这一想法逐渐获得关注。
It has been six years since he and Alain Grandjean, an economist specializing in the climate transition, put forward this suggestion in a book, Une monnaie écologique ("An Ecological Currency," 2020). Since then, from a first op-ed in Le Monde in May 2020 co-authored with six other French economists, to another in February 2021 signed by 150 economists from around the world and published in eight European newspapers, the idea has been gaining traction.
随后，在8月底，让-吕克·梅朗雄将其列为核心主张。激进左翼政党“不屈的法国”（LFI）领袖、总统候选人梅朗雄以其标志性的挑衅风格宣称：“你只需把它们[债务]拿起来扔进火里烧掉。”
Then, at the end of August, Jean-Luc Mélenchon made it central to his proposals. "You just have to take them [the debts] and throw them on the fire," declared the leader of the radical-left La France Insoumise party (LFI) and presidential candidate, with his trademark flair for provocation.