The critical policy innovators of the late 1980’s, in particular the highly activist French Finance Minister Edouard Balladur, took an international answer and started to advocate its realization on the European level. At the G-7 meeting of finance ministers in Louvre in February 1987, Balladur suggested a system of currency target zones; when its realization proved problematic, he pushed on with a more definitive and tighter European version of the scheme.
20 世纪 80 年代推动政策创新的关键人物，尤其是非常活跃的法国财政部长巴拉迪尔（ Edouard Balladur ），动员欧洲主要大国协同出台了一套方案，并在整个欧洲力促其实施。 1987 年 2 月，七国集团财政部长会议在法国卢浮宫召开，会上，巴拉迪尔倡议建立一个汇率目标区体系，虽然后来这个计划没被采纳，他还是努力推动欧洲各国接纳一个更明确和更严谨的蓝图。