Economic crises in some European countries over the past few years have stirred up new debate about the benefits and costs of belonging to the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). The costs of forgone ...

In practical terms, the EMU involves: economic union: coordination of national fiscal and economic policies on the basis of common rules and recommendations, mostly within the European Semester ...

by R diger Soltwedel, Dirk Dohse, and Christiane Krieger-Boden: The debate about European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has so far been dominated by questions of fiscal convergence and ...

When the European Union set course for economic and monetary union (EMU) in the early 1990s there was extensive debate in Ireland and elsewhere on whether it was a wise initiative.

EMU: DefinitionThe Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) is a three-stage, multi-year process to converge the economies of member countries within ...

Most economists would argue that monetary integration leads to financial integration; in other words, when a set of countries has a common currency, as in the European Monetary Union (EMU), for ...

The Return of the EMU Crisis: Economic Monetary Union Wobbles Again. By Alastair Winter Published 01 July 2013, 7:49 AM BST.

Despite its young age, the Economic and Monetary Union — the boldest and most complex European project of the past 25 years — has withstood one of the worst economic and financial crises in living ...

Consider the Euro, and the larger structure of the European Economic and Monetary Union(EMU or Eurozone). They look like successes. Not so, as it is too soon to tell.

It’s been a black weekend for Europe’s economic and monetary union, with the French election, the Dutch budget failing, and new pressures on the bailouts rising in Germany, writes David Marsh.

ECONOMICS:IRELAND'S EMU (economic and monetary union) membership means that tough budgets are unavoidable for next year and the year after, probably also for 2011 and maybe 2012. The large fall ...

EU leaders met together with Eurogroup President Mário Centeno and European Central Bank President Mario Draghi for the Euro Summit in inclusive format of 27 EU member states. They assessed the state ...