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 ...

Euro Summit The Euro Summit in inclusive format, with all 27 EU leaders, focused on economic recovery and progress achieved in the Economic and Monetary Union. EU leaders acknowledged that the strong, ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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

A main shadow is, yes indeed folks, the return of the Economic Monetary Union crisis! Only a month ago it seemed that the EMU leaders had pulled off their best yet 'kick of the can' in relaxing ...

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 ...

The debate about European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has so far been dominated by questions of fiscal convergence and macroeconomic stability. Far less attention has been given to EMU's effects ...

Since Europe's Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) was created, no progress towards political unification has been made or even really attempted. Now that Europe's current crisis has convinced many ...

Background Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) was an EU goal as far back as the 1960s, but was not pursued with much vigour or success until the late 1980s, when the Single European Act added a Chapter ...

The economic and monetary union (EMU) is one of the foundations of the European Union. It supports economic stability and growth with high employment and sustainable public finances in the member ...