Hvis vi havde holdt os til Maastricht-kriterierne med samme konsekvens, som stabilitetspagten pålægger os at holde os til de 3%, ville vi så have en euro i dag?
Not only was the Stability Pact socially unfair, it was totally unworkable, and the tragedy about breaking it is not that we did not wish it to be respected, it is that it was ever set up.