A new currency is the silver bullet that supposedly kills all economic ills. Panama, El Salvador and Ecuador have the dollar; Montenegro and Kosovo the euro. Now it has been suggested that central European members of the European Union not in the eurozone should unilaterally adopt the euro too. This, the International Monetary Fund believes, could help forestall a regional crisis so severe that euroisation may happen anyway. Better to pre-empt the inevitable and euroise now.
采用一種新的貨幣據稱是一劑可治愈所有經濟弊病的萬能藥。巴拿馬、薩爾瓦多和厄瓜多爾采用了美元;黑山和科索沃采用了歐元。如今有人建議,歐盟中歐成員國中的那些非歐元區國家,也應單方面采用歐元。國際貨幣基金組織(IMF)認為,這可能有助于防范一場地區性危機。這場危機非常嚴重,以至于可能必然導致歐元化。最好預先對這一不可避免的危機做出防范,現在就進行歐元化。