Delors had a different vision. At the time of his report, he concluded that the European budget would amount to some 3% of GDP – identical to the peacetime US federal budget’s share of GDP during the country’s first stage of monetary union, in the nineteenth century.
过去德洛尔对此有一个不同的愿景。在当年那份报告发表的时候，他推断欧盟的预算会达到其GDP的3%——这和19世纪处在货币联盟第一阶段的美国联邦和平时期预算占GDP的比重相同。