There is an apparent contradiction between the euro’s financial requirements and the EU’s political objectives. The financial requirements could be met by replicating the arrangements that prevailed in the global economy in the 1980’s and dividing the eurozone into a center and periphery; but that could not be reconciled with the principles of an open society.
因此原本旨在保护金融体系和欧元的政策正致使欧盟转向开放社会的对立面。欧元融资需求和欧盟政治目标间存在着显而易见的冲突。资金需求可以藉由复制1980年代全球经济所践行的规则以及将欧元区割裂为核心及外围国家来加以实现，但这与开放社会的矛盾根本无法调和。