Contents: 1. Jürgen von Hagen, Jean Pisani-Ferry - Forum Economique Franco-Allemand /Deutsch-Französisches Wirtschaftspolitisches Forum ...1 -- 2. Karel Lannoo - Financial Supervision in EMU ...3 -- 3. Charles Wyplosz - Economic Policy Coordination in EMU: Strategies and Institutions...36 --...

Brexit means Brexit, or out means out — and that includes the UK's exit from the single financial market. With financial services accounting for about eight per cent of the country's GDP, it is understandable why the UK attaches immense importance to retaining access to the EU's single market....

With the successful launch of the euro, the previously national interbank bank markets have been integrated at once in a unified euro interbank market, outstanding public debt has been redenominated in euro, trading conventions harmonised, and all EMU stock markets have started quoting in euro....

More than other EU 'Unions', the proposed Health Union requires proper definition because the EU's competences are limited in this domain.

In March, the European Commission released its Europe 2020 strategy proposal, which strives for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth and greater policy coordination between the EU and national governments. While the document was greeted with scepticism in some quarters, others believe it lays...

The contribution will consist of two parts. The first part will demonstrate the contrast between the great and increasing importance of geographic factors for economic development and the small and decreasing attention mainstream economic theory paid to spatial aspects until recently. It thereby...

The savings measures of private households currently exceed the limited financing needs of companies around the world, and the difference is reflected in an increase in sovereign debt. In the EU, over the last two and a half decades non-financial corporations recorded funding surpluses in one...

The unusually rapid economic growth during the second quarter of the previous century led to a marked reduction of sustained exclusion and discrimination against groups of persons. However, in the 1980s and 1990s, growth rates in industrialised countries began to drop; the different types of...