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After the collapse of Communism in 1990, the European Union (EU) has immediately sustained in the process of … the European continent, which will allow the important position of the EU in the World. The 1st May 2004 the EU has passed … continued on January the 1st, 2007 by accessing to the EU of Bulgaria and Romania. The Single Market”, Economic and Monetary …
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measures to deregulate labor markets in Southern EU countries: a longer working week, relaxation of job dismissal laws, raising …
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The view is widespread that there are just two options for the future of the Eurozone – either it is complemented by a fiscal union, or it will fall apart. In this paper, we discuss five possible elements of a fiscal union, of which three are in the centre of the current debate on fiscal union...
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In 1991, the European Union undertook to form a full-fledged monetary union. It established the European Monetary Union with a European Central Bank (ECB) at its apex and a mandate to pursue price stability. The European regime differs from the US Federal Reserve System, which must pursue high...
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European monetary history prior to 1950 presents many attempts at international monetary coordination, but none were as bold and as far reaching as the European Monetary Union envisioned in the Delors Report of 1989 and enacted through the 1991 Treaty on the European Union in Maastricht. This...
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Whatever its successes and difficulties, monetary integration has caused significant changes in many, perhaps most, Eurozone societies. A review of EMU's origins and first years of EMU would thus be remiss without national case studies. France is a particularly good choice for this task. It has...
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Originally, in 1997, balanced budget or surplus was set as medium-term objective (MTO) for government budgets under the European Union Stability and Growth Pact, while in 2005 the MTOs were made country-specific. They were agreed for a transitional period only, until the criteria for taking into...
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This paper provides a challenging view to the tax harmonisation issue. The literature often proposes tax harmonisation to avoid free-riding behaviours in free-trade areas and more particularly in monetary unions. Without tax harmonisation, tax autonomy may lead to a "race to the bottom". The...
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After the fuzziness in Europe that surrounded the implementation of the excessive deficit procedure foreseen by the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP), the European Union had to restore the credibility of the weakened fiscal rule. The constraint was to keep alive the Treaty of Amsterdam. Indeed, an...
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