The result of the debates of the early 1990’s was a set of rough and ready rules on deficits and debt levels that was never taken quite seriously. Economists mocked them and Romano Prodi, the president of the European Commission at the time, called them “stupid.”
20世纪90年代早期争论的成果是一系列关于赤字和债务水平的严格成文规则，但这些规则从未被认真遵守过。经济学家对这些规则嗤之以鼻而时任欧洲委员会主席普罗迪则称它们“愚蠢”。