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Only a year ago Europe's leaders were laying into American free-marketry and declaring unbridled capitalism finished.

仅一年前，欧洲领导人还在言辞攻击美国的自由市场经济，还宣布说结束自由式资本主义。

Often, however, laying into Mr Sarkozy is a convenient way for the opposition to disguise its own failures.

然而，反对党常常利用攻击萨科奇作为掩饰其失败的好方法。

Its leaders, having made up with each other, are warming up for the federal election in 2009 by laying into Ms Merkel.

社民党的领导层也以冰释前嫌，通过对默克尔夫人狂轰乱炸为2009年的大选热身。