In a union of sovereign states the most disciplined members do not want to pay for the most reckless.

在这样一个由主权国家构成的联盟中，那些规矩行事的国家不会情愿为鲁莽行事的国家收拾残局。

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In a union of sovereign states, there are limits to the opprobrium that can be expressed and the penalties that can be imposed.

在一个主权国家的联盟中，对其它国家的诋毁和对惩罚的施加都受到诸多限制。

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It is precisely these supranational institutions that are the best guarantee for the respect of the agreed rules in a union of sovereign states.

这些超国家机构是确保我们这个主权国家联盟的各种约定的规则得到尊重的保证。

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Even during the signing ceremony he emphasized that the EU should remain a union of sovereign states.

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In a union of sovereign states the most disciplined members do not want to pay for the most reckless.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

In short, despite the central authorities' assertions, the Treaty does not contemplate a voluntary, consensual union of equal sovereign states.

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But it has never quite resigned itself to losing so much of the Caspian to the new sovereign states created when the Soviet Union collapsed.

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