It would be kept stable by the institutions that already exist today, the European Central Bank and those national central banks that have no new alternative. In this sense, the core countries would be the equivalent of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain, which had only a gold-standard regime.
与此同时，欧元相当于今天的金本位。保证其币值的仅需现存机构即可——欧洲央行、各国国家银行，用不着建立新的机构。在这种意义尚，欧元区核心国家的地位相当于18世纪和19世纪早期的英国——当年奉行单一金本位制的国家。