Især det krav, der gang på gang fremsættes fra De Grønnes og socialdemokraternes side om at inddrage beskæftigelsesspørgsmålet som et yderligere kriterium for Den Europæiske Monetære Union ville vise sig at være en fatal fejltagelse for ØMU og få arbejdsløsheden til at stige endnu mere.
Above all, the constantly expressed desire on the part of the Greens and the Social Democrats, to include the employment question as a further criterion for European monetary union, would prove to be a fatal fallacy for economic and monetary union, and would allow unemployment to rise even further.