On April 20, 2000, in Accra, Ghana, the leaders of six West African countries 1 declared their intention to proceed to monetary union among the non-CFA 2 franc countries of the region by January 2003, ...

Historic monetary unions without political unions eventually broke up (19th Century Latin monetary union). Lack of political union is a problem in EU.

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the 2025 discussions on common euro area policies with member countries. This year, the consultation also included a discussion o ...

Economic and monetary union The economic and monetary union involves the coordination of member states’ economic and fiscal policies alongside a single monetary policy for member states that have ...

Class and Subsidiarity: On European Monetary Union Werner Bonefeld Preamble The following four quotations focus the essay's argument. The Preamble concludes with a fairly conventional observation on ...

Cornel Oros, What could happen in a Monetary Union? The Perspective of Informational Asymmetry, Journal of Economic Integration, Vol. 27, No. 4 (December 2012), pp. 633-652 ...

The Latin Monetary Union lasted a bit longer but was driven by inertia. The origin of the failure dates back to shortly after it began, in 1866, when the administrator of the Vatican Treasury, ...

The European Monetary System (EMS) was set up in 1979 to foster closer monetary policy co-operation between members of the European Community (EC).

The European monetary union is based on the Franco-German engine composed of two relatively even and complementary powers. The French economy represents 70 percent of Germany’s GDP, but France is a ...

Politics What a Mar-a-Lago Accord Can and Cannot Do A new monetary combination is but one piece of a larger, politically difficult puzzle.

EU leaders noted that "the progress achieved in the Economic and Monetary Union and the banking union over the past decade has contributed to financial stability and helped maintain financing to the ...