Economic and Monetary Union at Twenty
The contributions to this book examine the two main asymmetries of the Euro Area as they have intensified during the second decade of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU): the first between monetary union (more supranational governance) versus economic union (less centralised governance); the second between those Euro Area member states of the so-called core and those of the periphery.
EMU stands as one of the European Unions (EU) flagship integration achievements. Set up in 1999, with the large majority of EU member states at the time, EMU was described as asymmetrical even prior to its start. From the outset, it involved asymmetrical integration in monetary and economic union. Although a major element of the blueprint that paved the way for the final stage of EMU, the concept of economic union was insufficiently developed. The second decade of the single currency gave rise to a second asymmetry, namely one between those Euro Area member states of the core and those of the periphery. The eleven contributions to this volume speak to one or both of these asymmetries, covering the major political, political economy and policy dimensions of EMU and the ongoing debates about necessary policy and institutional reforms to overcome these asymmetries and bolster Euro Area stability. The outbreak of the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis in 2020 created unprecedented socio-economic challenges for Euro Area member states, heightening the perceived urgency of reform.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Integration.
David Howarth is Professor of European Political Economy at the University of Luxembourg and a former Jean Monnet Chair at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is the co-author/co-editor of four monographs, nineteen special issues/edited volumes and over ninety journal articles and chapters on European political economy topics.
Amy Verdun is Professor in European Politics and Political Economy at Leiden University, the Netherlands, and Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada. She is the co-author/co-editor of two monographs, more than twenty books/special issues and over one hundred journal articles and chapters.
Journal of European Integration Special Issues
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Thomas Christiansen, Maastricht University, Netherlands,
Simon Duke, European Institute of Public Administration, Netherlands
The Journal of European Integration book series is designed to make our Special Issues accessible to a wider audience. All of the themes covered by our Special Issues and the series are carefully selected with regard to the topicality of the questions addressed in the individual volumes, as well as to the quality of the contributions. The result is a series of books that are sufficiently short to appeal to the curious reader, but that also offer ample depth of analysis to appeal to the more specialist reader, with contributions from leading academics.
Crisis and Politicisation
The Framing and Re-framing of Europes Permanent Crisis
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Political Leadership in the European Union
Edited by Ingeborg Tmmel and Amy Verdun
European Boundaries in Question
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The EU as a Global Player
The Politics of Interregionalism
Edited by Fredrick Soderbaum and Luk Van Langenhove
The Future of European Foreign Policy
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Policy Coherence and EU Development Policy
Edited by Maurizio Carbonne
The External Dimension of Justice and Home Affairs
A Different Security Agenda for the European Union?
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The Common Agricultural Policy
Policy Dynamics in a Changing Context
Edited by Grace Skogstad and Amy Verdun
European Parliament Elections after Eastern Enlargement
Edited by Hermann Schmidt
European Neighbourhood through Civil Society Networks?
Policies, Practices and Perceptions
Edited by James Wesley Scott and Ilkka Likanen
Economic and Monetary Union at Twenty
A Stocktaking of a Tumultuous Second Decade
Edited by
David Howarth and Amy Verdun
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Contents
David Howarth and Amy Verdun
Dermot Hodson
Michele Chang
Jrg S. Haas, Valerie J. DErman, Daniel F. Schulz and Amy Verdun
Ton Notermans and Simona Piattoni
George Pagoulatos
Assem Dandashly and Amy Verdun
Ben Crum and Stefano Merlo
Susan Banducci and Peter Loedel
David Howarth and Lucia Quaglia
Joachim Schild