Jeg har aldrig kunnet se, at ØMU skulle være en trussel mod marginalområderne, ligesom jeg heller ikke har kunnet gå med til, at virkeliggørelsen af det indre marked var en trussel mod de fattigste marginalstater.
I have never accepted that Economic and Monetary Union is a threat to the peripheral regions, just as I have never accepted that the completion of the internal market was a threat to the poorer peripheral states.