An obvious starting point for a Hamiltonian Europe would be to set some standard limit for federalized national debt – perhaps the tarnished threshold of 60% of GDP that was mandated (without adequate enforcement) by the Maastricht convergence criteria, or perhaps a lower limit. Debt exceeding that amount would be left to the responsibility of the member states.
要实现汉密尔顿式的欧洲，显而易见的出发点是设立联邦化国民债务的标准上限，可以是早已被置若罔闻的、缺少强制性的马斯特里赫特大同标准（即不超过GDP的60%），也可以是更低的上限。超过这一限度的债务将由成员国自己负责。