The single currency was conceived as an answer to the upheavals of the postwar period – double-digit inflation, high unemployment, and speculative attacks on the pound, the lira, and the French franc. It was the crisis of the European Monetary System that drove the euro’s launch on January 1, 1999.
怀疑者应该记住，欧元本身就是因危机而产生的。统一货币的设想，是对战后时期的乱象-两位数的通货膨胀、高失业率以及对英镑、里拉和法国法郎投机性攻击-的一个解决方法。正是欧洲货币体系的危机促使了欧元于1999年1月1日的推出。