物换星移，柏林墙倒了，欧元来到了──所有这些都是近期欧洲历史上极为重要的，很多人从来没想到在有生之年能看到的事，发生了。欧元，不管你是否喜欢它，已经到来，尽管它还不是真正意义上的到来，至少它以真实但无形的方式出现。实施单一货币的日程所起来似乎是这样：1999 Things have changed, the Berlin Wall has fallen, the euro has come - all of which are of paramount importance in recent European history, and many have never imagined something to happen in their lifetime. The euro, whether you like it or not, has arrived, though it is not yet in the real sense of the word, at least in a real but invisible way. The schedule for implementing a single currency looks like this: 1999