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 ...

BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Here in the heart of the bureaucracy overseeing the eurozone, officials publicly concede the future of the common currency is at a crossroads. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Leaders of the European Union meet in Brussels this week to discuss the future of the euro zone. In recent years, governments have strengthened the system a lot, making it less likely that a crisis in ...

[caption id="attachment_22939" align="alignnone" width="1024"] New guidance approved by the IMF represents an important step in how the Fund supports members of ...

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 ...

Banks in the West African Economic and Monetary Union hold excess reserves more than three times the regulatory minimum. The Central Bank of West African States cut its key rate by 50 basis points in ...

Mali’s military government called on the West African Economic and Monetary Union to defy sweeping economic sanctions that were imposed on the country by a regional bloc last month, describing the ...