在此之前，让我们再发挥一下跳跃式的想象，假设尽管欧盟“零年”的情形意味着我们没有长达半个世纪的欧洲内部合作的基础，但当今组成欧盟的各国仍然渴望实施长期的共同政策。
On top of that, let us make a major leap of imagination and suppose that even though this scenario of the EU at “Year Zero” means we would not have a half-century of intra-European cooperation to draw on, the nations that today make up the EU would nevertheless be keen to adopt far-reaching joint policies.