The alternative to thinking about European integration simply as a way of generating wealth and prosperity frequently analogizes it to a marriage. In the late 1980’s, for example, then-European Commission President Jacques Delors, raising the prospect of a two-speed Europe, suggested that one or two countries might need a “different kind of marriage contract.”
另一个关于欧洲一体化的思想是仅仅把它当作创造财富和繁荣的方式。这一思想常常用婚姻来打比方。比如，20世纪80年代末，时任欧盟委员会主席德洛尔提出了两速欧洲的观点，指出有一两个国家或许需要“不同类型的婚约”。