scholarly journals Die Zukunft der europäischen Wirtschaftsintegration

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (189) ◽  
Author(s):  
Etienne Schneider ◽  
Felix Syrovatka
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Monetary Union ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Economic And Monetary Union ◽  
Structural Reforms ◽  
Eurozone Crisis ◽  
Principal Mechanism ◽  
Fiscal Austerity ◽  
The Eu

After more than seven years of fiscal austerity and neoliberal structural reforms, the fundamental imbalances that led to the Eurozone crisis have remained unresolved and the project of European integration as such appears to be in the deepest crisis it has experienced so far. This has prompted the dominant forces in the EU to at least partially reconsider their present crisis management strategies, envisioning deeper integration towards a “Genuine Economic and Monetary Union” and outlining different future scenarios for the EU. While especially the Five President’s Report does acknowledge fundamental construction problems and crisis tendencies of the Economic and Monetary Union, the strategies to address them either fall tremendously short of this diagnosis or lack assertiveness. We argue that this inability to confront these crisis tendencies results from the growing economic and political asymmetry in the axis between France and Germany as the principal mechanism of compromise which undergirded previous cycles of European economic integration. At the bottom of this paralysis lies a gradual shift in the dominant internationalization patterns of the German political economy within the European division of labor: away from Southern Europe and France and towards Eastern Europe and the Emerging Markets.

The Crisis-Induced Developments in the Economic and Monetary Union

2020 ◽  
pp. 18-65
Author(s):  
Menelaos Markakis
Keyword(s):  
Economic Integration ◽  
Monetary Union ◽  
Euro Area ◽  
Economic And Monetary Union ◽  
Member States ◽  
Legal Principle ◽  
Democratic Control ◽  
Economic Developments ◽  
Eu Economic Governance ◽  
The Eu

This chapter looks at the crisis-induced legal, institutional, and economic developments within the Economic and Monetary Union. It consists of two parts. First, there will be a brief sketch of the crisis-related developments. These include the setting-up of financial mechanisms, the European Central Bank’s interventions to combat the crisis, the enhanced oversight of national fiscal and economic policy, and the increased supervision over the financial sector. Second, there will be a ‘first assessment’ of their constitutional and structural implications. Two sets of issues will be examined here: issues of legal principle; and the bearing of the enacted measures on European economic integration. Three key arguments will be made in this chapter. First, it will be argued that the measures enacted have led to legislative fragmentation and have exacerbated problems of transparency and complexity which already existed in this area. Second, it will be shown that the chosen form of action has consequences for institutional balance in the EU, democratic control, and judicial review. Third, it will be argued that the enactment of measures which are only applicable to Euro area Member States has served to deepen economic integration within the Euro area and to further differentiate it from economic integration in non-Euro area Member States. Further, certain areas of the single market have integrated more deeply in the Euro area. It will be concluded that the various reforms which have been implemented have strengthened the EU economic governance framework from a legal, institutional, and economic perspective.

20. Economic and Monetary Union

2020 ◽  
pp. 379-398
Author(s):  
Simon Bulmer ◽  
Owen Parker ◽  
Ian Bache ◽  
Stephen George ◽  
Charlotte Burns
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
European Community ◽  
Monetary Union ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Economic And Monetary Union ◽  
Eurozone Crisis ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Single Currency

This chapter examines the various attempts to create the economic and monetary union (EMU), which first became an official objective of the European Community (EC) in 1969 but was achieved only thirty years later. The chapter first provides a historical background on efforts to create the EMU, including long-standing debates between France and West Germany on its design, before discussing the launch of the single currency, the euro, and its subsequent progress up to and including the eurozone crisis in the late 2000s. On the eurozone crisis, it considers both the short-term efforts at crisis management and the long-term reforms that were implemented in an attempt to prevent further crises. Finally, it considers some of the explanations for and critiques of EMU, including critiques of the responses to the eurozone crisis that have been offered by various academic commentators.

European union: stability or instability for small periphery economies

2001 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Serhan Çiftçioglu
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Monetary Union ◽  
Economic And Monetary Union ◽  
Small Open Economies ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Wage Indexation ◽  
Union Stability ◽  
Monetary Instability ◽  
The Eu

The main focus of this paper is to analyze the likely consequences of the possible increase in the monetary instability and decrease in the rate of wage indexation in the EU (that can result from the completion of economic and monetary union) on the macroeconomic stability of small, open economies which are in the process of integration with the EU. Such periphery countries include countries as Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Turkey and others.

Large-scale EMU: the May Council decisions and implications for monetary policy

1998 ◽  
Vol 165 ◽  
pp. 109-114
Author(s):  
John Arrowsmith
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
Monetary Union ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Economic And Monetary Union ◽  
European Central ◽  
Political Independence ◽  
Future Viability ◽  
Heads Of State ◽  
The Eu

The decision by the EU Council of Heads of State or of Government at the beginning of May, that eleven Member States would form an Economic and Monetary Union on 1 January 1999, occasioned little surprise: financial markets and economic commentators had become increasingly convinced over the preceding months that EMU would start on time with a membership extending beyond the six ‘core’ countries—France, Germany, the Benelux countries and Austria—to include also Finland, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain. What was not widely expected was that the ECOFIN and HoSoG Councils on 1–2 May appear to have spent little time debating the economic case for including each of the eleven countries but to have been preoccupied instead with a heated political row about who should be appointed President of the European Central Bank.This note assesses the possible consequences that this cavalier approach to the vital question of membership of monetary union might have for the conduct of policy in Stage 3 and the future viability of EMU. It examines the economic evidence that had been presented to the Councils to see whether their judgement that the economies of all eleven countries are sufficiently convergent is warranted. It also considers whether the unseemly compromise through which the dispute about the ECB Presidency was resolved will prejudice the political independence of the ECB in its conduct of monetary policy.

The Mano River Union

1982 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 613-628 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Robson
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Monetary Union ◽  
West African ◽  
Economic And Monetary Union ◽  
Economic Community

Of the four current schemes for international economic integration in West Africa, the operation of the Communauté économique de l'Afrique de l'Ouest has been recently reviewed, the Economic Community of West African States continues to be widely discussed, while the agreement of the Presidents of Senegal and Gambia in Dakar on 17 December 1981 to establish a Senegambian Confederation, and to develop an economic and monetary union between the two countries, is as yet in its formative stages. This article examines the structure, progress, and potential of the Mano River Union (M.R.U.) about which little has been published.

scholarly journals Risks of a slow-motion EMU reform

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-237
Author(s):  
László Andor
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Monetary Union ◽  
Euro Area ◽  
Slow Motion ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
Economic And Monetary Union ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Eurozone Crisis ◽  
Pros And Cons

The article provides a critical assessment of how the Economic and Monetary Union was designed, implemented and reformed in the European Union and discusses the risks of a slow-motion reform process. It is argued that the fact that the euro area economy has recovered in the last few years has become a source of complacency and delays. In particular, powerful forces continue to downplay the importance of systemic reconstruction and the risk of disintegration remains high despite the relative tranquillity of markets in the 2014–2018 period. Finally, the article evaluates competing paradigms about the eurozone crisis and the pros and cons of fiscal capacity building.

Belgian politics in 1996

Res Publica ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 523-545
Author(s):  
Ivan Couttenier
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Monetary Union ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Legal Reform ◽  
Organized Labor ◽  
Economic And Monetary Union ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Eu

In 1996, Belgian politics centered around three major issues: the jobs contract, the 1997 budget and political fallout of the Dutroux affair (the four girls killed by a pedophile ring).During the first months of the year, Prime Minister Dehaene attempted to win support for a comprehensive jobs contract, but the draft agreement was turned down by the Socialist trade union militants. Nevertheless, the measures contained in the agreement were later implemented by the cabinet, without the consent of the employers and organized labor. Together with adjustments made to the social security system and implementation of budgetary measures needed to reach the conditions set by the EU for joining the Economic and Monetary Union, the jobs contract was implemented by means of special powers. The cabinet obtained these special powers from Parliament before the summer recess.  After the summer, as a result ofthe Dutroux alfair, the cabinet dealt with legal reform, in the process trying to quell tensions arisen among the law enforcement agencies.

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