The Report on economic and monetary union in the European Community, which laid out the euro blueprint, was presented in April 1989 – a time when no one (with the possible exception of some Kremlin strategists) was thinking about German reunification. Moreover, the salient issues concerning monetary unions were well understood, and remedies for the most significant obstacles were proposed at the outset.
这与事实相差甚远。制定欧元蓝图的对欧洲共同市场经济和货币联盟的报告于1989年4月就已经出台了，当时没有人（可能除了一些克里姆林宫的战略家）想到两德会统一。而且当时人们也对关于货币联盟的突出问题有透彻的了解，并从一开始就提出了对那些重大障碍的补救措施。