and whereas subsequently the euro area witnessed continuing and growing structural divergence between 1999 and 2009, which made the euro area as a whole less resilient to shocks;
in ker je pozneje na euroobmočju med letoma 1999 in 2009 prišlo do stalnih in vse večjih strukturnih razlik, zaradi katerih je postalo euroobmočje kot celota manj odporno na pretrese;