Before Christmas (19th-20th December), European heads of state and government met in Brussels for the European Council, to discuss plans for a “genuine” Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). But what ...

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 ...

Journal of Economic Integration, Vol. 39, No. 2 (June 2024), pp. 454-482 (29 pages) This study investigated the possibility of expanding the GCC monetary union to other MENA countries using cluster ...

Through a textual analysis of national newspaper articles covering European central bankers' statements and policy decisions from 1999 to 2011, I derive the concerns expressed by national media in the ...

(Reuters) -Europe's economic and monetary union, the most visible product of which is the euro, is an unprecedented effort at creating a shared currency backed by its own financial architecture. It is ...

In 1999, eleven European countries adopted the euro as their common currency (Greece followed in 2001). This followed a long period of gradually tying their national currencies together more tightly ...