Det faktum, at hr. Lamfalussy har kunnet opbygge og forme dette Europæiske Monetære Institut, både personelt, organisatorisk og administrationsmæssigt, har været et lykketræf for den monetære historie, og dét ikke kun for opbygningen af dette institut.
The fact that Mr Lamfalussy was able to construct and plan the European Monetary Institute, its personnel and its organization and its administration, was a stroke of luck for monetary history as a whole, not just for the development of that Institute.