The creation of the European Central Bank and the Euro have brought new challenges to EU integration and economic … empirical research on the - transitory - decline of the Euro. Issues of exchange rate policy and international economic … relations also are addressed. Contents: European Monetary Union: Start of the Euro and the Need for Complementary Measures in …

Part 1 - The Eurozone as a (non) Optimum Currency Area -- STIGLITZ, Joseph. The fundamental flaws in the Euro Zone … dominating the Eurozone and the European Union, concerning both the monetary policy and the budgetary and fiscal policy. The … Euro Area economic structures changing? -- ANDRADE, João A. S., DUARTE, Adelaide P. S. and SIMÕES, Marta C. N., Differences …

to monetary union. The author addresses current issues surrounding the Eurozone, including; a critical discussion of the …