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On the Relation of Monetary and Political Union

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When EMU took effect in 1999, no progress in the direction of political union had been achieved — indeed, it had not even been attempted. Therefore, from the beginning the euro was confronted with a kind of sword of Damocles: can monetary union survive without political union?

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  1. Center for Financial Studies, House of Finance, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 3, 60323, Frankfurt a.M., Germany

    Otmar Issing

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Issing, O. On the Relation of Monetary and Political Union. Intereconomics 51, 16–20 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10272-016-0567-1

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