He also called for an EU budget to favour economic convergence, saying France was willing to increase its contribution.

他同时呼吁欧盟的财政预算要有利于经济一体化，称法国愿意增加投入。

Figures from the Penn World Table suggest that, all told, 156 countries have had at least one ten-year period of price convergence without economic convergence since 1960. This pattern is ultimately compatible with Balassa's and Samuelson's theory.

佩恩世界表的数据表明，自 1960 年以来， 总共有 156 个国家经历了至少十年的价格趋同期， 而没有出现经济趋同。 这一模式最终与巴拉萨和萨缪尔森的理论相一致。