The Euro. - The Politics of the New Global Vurrency PDF

While the Euro represents a remarkable triumph of political will, great pressures are building on the single currency. Drawing on more than 100 interviews with leading figures associated with the Euro, and scores of secret documents from international archives, Marsh underscores the Euro's importance for the global economy, in particular for the U.S. and British economic and political agendas

The European Union Economy and Politics in 2019 The OECD May forecast for 3.7% global growth in 2018 and 2019 had fallen slightly to 3.5% for 2019 by November. The most direct explanation for the about turn in the EU economy is politics. The

Aug 26, 2019 ... The European Monetary System (EMS) was set up in 1979 to foster closer ... to seek out a new exchange rate agreement to complement their customs union. ... This formed part of a wider goal to foster economic and political unity in ... The ECU served as a reference currency for exchange rate policy and ...

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21/05/1999 · The euro: the birth of a new currency Presentation by Ms Sirkka Hämäläinen, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, at the meeting of the Institut International d'Etudes Bancaires on 21 May 1999 in Helsinki . It is a great pleasure and honour for me to have been invited here today to say a few words about the birth of the new European currency - the euro. On 1 January