When the euro was planned in the 1990s many german politicians wanted a currency zone comprising only germany , the benelux countries and france .
上世纪90年代，欧元正在拟议之中，许多德国政治家希望欧元区仅由德、法、荷、比、卢五国组成。
After the war , the dutch economy prospered again , being a member of the benelux ( belgium , the netherlands and luxembourg ) and european economic community unions .
战后，荷兰成为比荷卢（比利时、荷兰和卢森堡）和欧洲经济共同体成员，经济再次繁荣。
Austria and the benelux three have , to all intents and purposes , linked their currencies to the deutschmark .
奥地利和比荷卢三国事实上已经把他们的货币与德国马克挂钩。
As of today , a subgroup of the european union -- perhaps germany , the benelux countries , and austria -- come closer to satisfying the conditions favorable to a common currency than does the eu as a whole .
The most powerful among them need to be given a bigger say in international institutions-unless of course you think india will always be happy outside the security council and china content to have a smaller voting share than the benelux countries do at the imf .
