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	Euro Monetary Union - Quotations on Europe
		The introduction of a common currency is not primarily an economic, but rather a sovereign and thus eminently political act...political union must be our lodestar from now on: it is the logical follow-on from Economic and Monetary Union."
		European Monetary Union has to be complemented with political union - that was always the presumption of Europeans."
		This doesn't explain why it was so important that the second head of the ECB be French, since he's not allowed by law to act in the interest of any one country.
	www.liebreich.com /LDC/HTML/Europe/08-Euro.html (1571 words)

	Monetary union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A monetary union differs from an Economic and monetary union, where it is not just currency but also economic policy that is pooled or co-ordinated (as in the European Union Eurozone, for instance).
		The euro is issued by the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union.
		The CFA franc BEAC is used by Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon and is issued by the Communauté Économique et Monétaire de l'Afrique Centrale (CEMAC), i.e.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Monetary_union (1011 words)

	Scandinavian Monetary Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Norway, which was in union with Sweden, however with full inner autonomy, entered the union two years later, in 1875 by pegging its currency to gold at the same level as Denmark and Sweden (.403 grams [1]).
		The monetary union was one of the few tangible results of the Scandinavian political movement of the 19th century.
		In 1905 the political union between Sweden and Norway was dissolved, but this did not affect the basis for co-operation in the monetary union.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scandinavian_Monetary_Union (378 words)

	EH.Net Encyclopedia: Monetary Unions
		Although some sources extend the definition to include the monetary regimes of national federations such as the United States or of imperial agglomerations such as the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, the conventional practice is to limit the term to agreements among units that are recognized as fully sovereign states under international law.
		The antithesis of a monetary union, of course, is a national currency with an independent central bank and a floating exchange rate.
		The idea of monetary union among sovereign states was widely promoted in the nineteenth century, mainly in Europe, despite the fact that most national currencies were already tied together closely by the fixed exchange rates of the classical gold standard.
	eh.net /encyclopedia/article/cohen.monetary.unions (3259 words)

	Economic and Monetary Union - MSN Encarta
		The European Monetary System (EMS) and the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) were established in 1979, but they were not closely related to the EMU proposal since they envisaged, at least initially, frequent readjustments of exchange rates.
		Monetary union proposals were revived in 1988 and moved forward rapidly.
		Opponents of monetary union focus on the principal cost of a monetary union, namely the loss of national autonomy with regard to monetary and exchange rate policy.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_781530385/Economic_and_Monetary_Union.html (970 words)

	Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In economics, a monetary union is a situation where several countries have agreed to share a single currency among them.
		Under the Copenhagen criteria, it is a condition of entry for states acceding to the EU that they be able to fulfil the requirements for monetary union within a given period of time.
		The European Monetary Institute is established as the forerunner of the European Central Bank, with the task of strengthening monetary cooperation between the member states and their national banks, as well as supervising ECU banknotes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/European_Monetary_Union (849 words)

	Benjamin J. Cohen
		The purpose of this chapter is to highlight the political dimension of monetary union: key domestic and international political issues implicated when sovereign states consider either currency unification or formal dollarization.
		Since monetary union is by definition an economic matter, it seems only natural to focus attention mainly on economic considerations-the material costs and benefits associated with a merger of separate national monies into one.
		Once decolonization began in the region, however, the monetary arrangement began to loosen, despite formalization first in 1974 as the Rand Monetary Area and later in 1986 as the CMA, as distinct national currencies were introduced by each of the junior partners.
	www.polsci.ucsb.edu /faculty/cohen/inpress/monetaryunion.html (7407 words)

	Monetary Unions
		The largest and best known monetary union is the "eurozone" where the euro is the monetary unit utilized by 12 of the 15 countries in the European Union.
		This monetary union was created in 1983 and it manages the single common currency for eight Caribbean countries: Anguilla (joined 1987), Antigua and Barbuda, Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada (joined 1968), Montserrat, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent and The Grenadines.
		This monetary union would be the second in the area as it's preceded by the CFA zone of those French-speaking countries using the West African franc.
	www.singleglobalcurrency.org /monetary_unions.html (1835 words)

	South-Western: European Monetary Union
		The economic advantages of EMU [European Monetary Union] increase in proportion to the size and stability of the euro region.
		One of the major concerns about the success of the monetary union is whether this central bank will be able to maintain an independent policy of maintaining a low inflation target.
		One of the shortcomings of the European Monetary Union is that three members of the European Union (Britain, Denmark, and Sweden) have chosen to not participate in the European Monetary Union.
	www.swlearning.com /economics/policy_debates/monetary_union.html (1625 words)

	European Monetary Union: Operating Monetary Policy - Finance & Development - September 1996
		The Maastricht Treaty on European Union states that members of the European Union (EU) should decide before the end of 1996 whether the majority of member countries meet the specified convergence criteria to start Stage 3 of the Economic and Monetary Union and whether it is appropriate to enter Stage 3.
		Stage 3 is defined as the ultimate stage of economic and monetary union wherein the currencies of the participating EU countries are irrevocably locked and replaced by a single currency, the euro.
		As a monetary control device, reserve requirements help stabilize the relationship between reserve money and broader measures of money (this is usually called the money multiplier) and increase the extent to which the demand for money responds to a change in interest rates in case of less than full remuneration of the required reserves.
	www.worldbank.org /fandd/english/0996/articles/070996.htm (3528 words)

	Class and Subsidiarity: On European Monetary Union \| libcom.org
		Politics appears thus to render monetary policy incredible; at least there is a risk of political manipulation and state intervention that is rejected as undermining the democracy of the market or, as von Mises (1944) had it, leads to planned chaos.
		The exclusion of fiscal federalism complementing monetary federalism and the prevention of fiscal free riding was of utmost concern for the architects of EMU.
		It merely empowers the Union to supervise, coordinate the fiscal stance of its members, and to recommend, on the basis of common rules, fiscal modifications, and ultimately to fine non- compliant member states.
	libcom.org /library/class-and-subsidiarity-on-european-monetary-union (4310 words)

	AEI - Short Publications (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In a monetary union including all fifteen countries in the European Union, the share of exports to member countries would be 50-75 percent in all member countries.
		The prospect that the quest for monetary union might produce greater conflict, rather than greater harmony, is ironic in light of the political goals that animate many advocates of union.
		Very small countries should eliminate the monetary operations of their central banks by establishing a currency board or a permanently fixed exchange rate, and to enforce their commitment those countries should permit their citizens to use a noninflating foreign currency as a medium of exchange or parallel currency.
	www.aei.org /publications/pubID.6514/pub_detail.asp (2114 words)

	ECB: Economic and Monetary Union
		The establishment of the European Monetary Institute (EMI) on 1 January 1994 marked the start of the second stage of EMU and with this the Committee of Governors ceased to exist.
		On 2 May 1998 the Council of the European Union – in the composition of Heads of State or Government – unanimously decided that 11 Member States had fulfilled the conditions necessary for the participation in the third stage of EMU and the adoption of the single currency on 1 January 1999.
		On 1 January 1999 the third and final stage of EMU commenced with the irrevocable fixing of the exchange rates of the currencies of the 11 Member States initially participating in Monetary Union and with the conduct of a single monetary policy under the responsibility of the ECB.
	www.ecb.int /ecb/history/html/index.en.html (1203 words)

	Greece and the European Economic and Monetary Union
		The course towards the economic and monetary union (EMU) is actually one of the most ambitious goals in the history of Europe.
		The monetary integration of a large part of the European national economic spaces represents a qualitative difference in the history of unification efforts which, most of the times, were historically connected with catastrophic wars in the continent.
		Although the external expansion of the Union and its external economic relations are not expected to cause dramatic changes in the next few years, developments in the agricultural sector and textiles, to name two significant examples, are decisive for the economic and social stability of the country.
	www.hri.org /MFA/thesis/spring97/monetary_union.html (4069 words)

	The IMF & the European Economic and Monetary Union - Factsheet
		In May 1998, the Council of the European Union, meeting at the level of the heads of state or government, announced that the 11 countries that had indicated their intent to be among the initial members—Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain—had qualified to participate in EMU.
		These discussions, and consideration by the IMF's Executive Board of the monetary and exchange rate policies of the euro area are, as a practical matter, held separately from those with individual euro-area countries, but are considered an integral part of the Article IV process for each member.
		Third, in parallel with an analysis of monetary growth, a broadly-based assessment of the outlook for future price developments is to be made using a range of economic and financial indicators.
	www.imf.org /external/np/exr/facts/emu.htm (1293 words)

	European Monetary Union Abandoning Maastricht
		While the collapse of the EMS has resurrected the spectre of monetary instability and beggar-thy-neighbour devaluations, De Grauwe maintained that renewed pessimism about monetary union and European integration in general is misplaced.
		EMU nevertheless still faces formidable obstacles: the European Union as a whole is not an optimum currency area, and German opposition to the abolition of the Deutschmark must still be overcome.
		This still carries the risk to Germany that the monetary authorities may tolerate high inflation in practice in spite of their constitutional obligations, but this risk is also present under the Maastricht strategy.
	www.cepr.org /pubs/bulletin/meets/1248.htm (717 words)

	Global Economy: European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) - Expand Your Insight - FRB Dallas
		Of course, this is not an option because Texas is bound irrevocably in a monetary (and political) union with the rest of the United States.
		There is also the more substantive fact that the pre-monetary union behavior of both the public and private sectors is a bad predictor of their behavior once the monetary union is in place.
		EMU constitutes a regime change for monetary policy in Europe, and one thing modern macroeconomics teaches is that the behavior of workers and investors will change when the policy regime changes.
	www.dallasfed.org /eyi/global/9902emu.html (1582 words)

	Think tank warns against monetary union
		It says that while the issue of a single monetary union could be implemented based on experiences elsewhere, the three East African states were still trapped in their different political problems associated with democracy.
		As a result, ’’it is impossible to implement a monetary union based on such shaky political grounds.’’ Kibua is a former CBK deputy governor, while Tostensen is a researcher based in Norway.
		According to the 2001-2005 EAC development plan, the successful implementation of a monetary union was expected to overcome the country specific weaknesses and lead to greater macro-economic stability, greater regional integration and rapid economic growth.
	www.ippmedia.com /ipp/financial/2006/04/26/65053.html (588 words)

	Monetary operations in the European Economic and Monetary Union. \| Public Administration > National Security and ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Monetary operations in the European Economic and Monetary Union.
		The European Monetary Institute and Europe's national central banks have made good progress in preparing a "menu" of efficient, market-based monetary instruments from which the European Central Bank, to be established by July 1, 1998, will choose.
		The main instrument of monetary operations will be weekly open market operations, which will play a pivotal role in steering interest rates, managing financial system liquidity, and signaling the stance of monetary policy.
	www.allbusiness.com /periodicals/article/682087-1.html (664 words)

	Does Europe's Path to Monetary Union Provide Lessons for East Asia? (2005-19, 8/12/2005)
		Related to this third benefit, however, is the principal cost of joining a monetary union—by delegating authority for monetary policy to a regional central bank, an individual country's central bank loses independent monetary policy control and, therefore, the ability to stabilize the economy when it is hit by a shock.
		In Europe, a monetary union was achievable primarily because it was part of the larger process of political integration.
		Finally, it must be acknowledged that the European Monetary Union and the adoption of the euro was a project that was fifty years in the making.
	www.frbsf.org /publications/economics/letter/2005/el2005-19.html (1850 words)

	What is the European Monetary Union? - FAQ - University of Iowa Center for International Finance and Development
		EMU is the agreement among the participating member states of the European Union to adopt a single hard currency and monetary system.
		The European states decided that the EMU and a single European market were essential to the implementation of the European Union, which was created to advance economic and social unity among the peoples of Europe and to propel Europe to greater prominence in the international community.
		The permissible limits of the ERM were derived from the European Currency Unit, or ECU, a referential currency calculated from an average of the participating countries' national currencies.
	www.uiowa.edu /ifdebook/faq/faq_docs/EMU.shtml (1255 words)

	Finansministeriet - Economic and monetary union (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The completion of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and the introduction of the Euro as the common currency in 12 of the 15 Member States is an important step for achieving the common objectives.
		Monetary policy (interest rate change) in the Euro countries is laid down by the European Central Bank, while domestic monetary policy in the three Member States standing outside of the Euro is established by the central banks of the respective countries – in Denmark the National Bank.
		While Denmark does not participate in the common currency, similar to the other non-participating countries it is covered by the remainder of the close economic-political cooperation within the EU.
	www.fm.dk /visArtikel.asp?artikelId=3740 (111 words)

	Robert Mundell and the Theoretical Foundation for the European Monetary Union
		The potential disadvantages would come from the elimination of the exchange rate between participants in the union: no longer would it be possible to let the exchange rate absorb shocks asymmetrically affecting the various regions of a monetary union.
		And the monetary union itself is a factor of integration which will at the same time increase the mobility of the factors of production and reduce the probability of asymmetrical shocks.
		It is noteworthy that this usage of the terms "monetarists" and "economists" is specific to the context of the debate on the monetary union.
	www.imf.org /external/np/vc/1999/121399.htm (1954 words)

	H-Net Review: Elaine Fuller on Elusive Union: The Process of Economic and Monetary Union in ...
		In this important book on the political move towards monetary union by which a number of European nations would use one circulating and reserve currency, Professor Dyson takes on a difficult task; his subject matter is a complex, long-term political process concerning economic and monetary issues, yet these issues themselves are not his focus.
		In this "two-level" policy process (the separation of activities toward political union and toward monetary union) monetary union is being pursued in a highly elitist fashion by financial technicians, central bankers and their international political cohorts.
		The other three were international -- the Latin Monetary Union of 1865, the international gold standard and the Bretton Woods System -- which fell apart when the hegemonic nation at their center began to lose control.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=27474850090184 (1640 words)

	Asia Times: After European now Asian Monetary Union?
		It is, we should think, but only to the extent that monetary devices such as swap agreements and regional monetary funds are not devised merely as protective cover for unreformed national economies.
		European Monetary Union provides a cautionary tale: to date, all the expected efficiencies notwithstanding, the euro has been a disappointment - precisely because the regulatory and fiscal reforms Mundell regards as critical to sound and sustainable economic growth have not been implemented in the euro-zone.
		So, yes, it IS time to start thinking about Asian monetary union, but it is even higher time for the implementation of Mundellian reform policies which must precede and are the only guarantee for beneficial effects of greater monetary integration.
	www.atimes.com /editor/CI08Ba01.html (779 words)

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