As British Prime Minister David Cameron said of the agreement with France: “This is the beginning of something new, not an end in itself” – words that echo those of Jean Monet, one of the Union’s founding fathers, on cooperation in the West. “This is not an end in itself,” Monet said.
正如英国首相戴维·卡梅隆对于法国协议的评价：“这一切是某种新生事物的开端，而非为了协议而协议”——此番言论其实也是欧元缔造者之一的让·莫内当年对西欧合作的评价类似，莫内当时说：“我们不是为了拥有欧元而创设欧元，而是通往一个更有秩序，不再步向毁灭的世界的开端。”