The Consumer Expectations Survey (CES) is an important new tool for analysing euro area household economic behaviour … qualitative euro area information in a timely manner that facilitates direct cross-country comparisons. During the pilot phase, it … was conducted for the six largest euro area countries and contained 10,000 individual respondents. In the context of the …

The inquiry into the global significance of the euro, which is the second most important currency in the international …’s strategic autonomy. The main obstacles impeding the further internationalisation of the euro include the lack of a sovereign … behind it and the heterogeneity and struc­tural problems of the euro area member states. The international status of the euro …

The euro is the second most important global currency after the US dollar. However, its international role has not … increased since its inception in 1999. The private sector prefers using the US dollar rather than the euro because the financial … the attractiveness of the euro outside the euro area requires, among others, a proactive role for the European Central …

, the eurozone and beyond. We argue genesis of this crisis lies in the integration negotiations of 1991, ratified in 1992 …. These produced a flawed economic model within the eurozone. Given the seeds of decay were planted at origin; we argue the … solution can be found through a reconstructed eurozone via looser integration, where countries less equipped to deal with the …