In hindsight, it was a mistake to believe in the euro’s spontaneous community-creating power. Though there clearly is a link between currency areas and political communities (consider the dissolution of the ruble zone at the time of the Soviet Union’s collapse), it is political community that creates the solidarity needed to foster currency linkages, not vice versa.
事后看来，认为欧元可以自动带来统一的力量是一个错误。尽管在货币区和政治共同体之间显然存在着联系（苏联解体导致卢布区崩溃就是明证），但是政治共同体创造了货币联系所需要的团结，而不是相反。