ministries, employers' organizations and trade unions in Britain, France and Germany. It examines why actors perceived EMU to …

Studies the interactions between monetary and wage policies in the euro area. This book discusses the process of policy …

The first systematic analysis of why Britain and France parted company on the issue of European monetary integration … thought; Britain and France pursued broadly similar policies on the issue until the end of the 1970s …

The euro area will not have a centralized budget, and smoothing of country-specific asymmetric shocks via private …

Political gridlock, violations of European law and inconsistent political communication have turned the euro crisis … can help answer the essential question of Europe’s sense and purpose. As the euro can only ever enjoy as much trust as the … institutions governing the euro area, the solution of the European confi dence crisis is crucial to the fate of the common currency. …