This paper reviews the creation and evolution of the European Economic Monetary Union (EEMU) and discusses the insights and perspectives of the key lessons for Asian economic integration utilizing an extensive review of the literature method. In order to implement a common monetary and economic...

Monetary Union in Europe has been the natural response to the combined desire of stabilizing intra-European exchange rates and of lifting permanently all capital controls. The commitment to stable exchange rate has long been rooted in policymakers' conviction that trade integration requires...

Most technocrats argue that creating the euro was a way of forcing the pace of political integration, since monetary union is not possible without political union. We disagree and instead put forward four minimal conditions for the survival of the euro. Political integration in Europe has its...