(Reuters) -Europe's economic and monetary union, the most visible product of which is the euro, is an unprecedented effort at creating a shared currency backed by its own financial architecture. It is ...

Sir, On the fifth anniversary of European economic and monetary union, Wolfgang Münchau draws a number of useful tactical lessons for those countries in Asia and elsewhere that might be aspiring to ...

Most economists would argue that monetary integration leads to financial integration; in other words, when a set of countries has a common currency, as in the European Monetary Union (EMU), for ...

The euro is at the core of the European project, but its future is far from assured. Introduced more than 25 years ago, it has survived one crisis after another, and its rules and institutions have ...

An economist from the Anglosphere is likely to tell you that the euro is structurally flawed and must implode. An economist in one of the 19 eurozone countries would say it is a work in progress and ...

Following years of negotiations involving over a dozen European nations, the Maastricht treaty was signed on February 7, 1992, and established the terms and basic timeline for European Economic and ...

Sources: IMF, African Department database; World Economic Outlook; World Bank World Development Indicators; IMF staff estimates and projections. All projections presented were prepared in February ...

From 2nd left to 2nd right: Mr Jacques DELORS, President of the European Commission; Mr Helmut KOHL, German Federal Chancellor; Mr Hans Dietrich GENSCHER, German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs.

The Council is also expected to agree on a harmonised date for reading the 2026/27 national budget speeches and to align ...