Introduction / Daniela Preda -- Opening address / Mario Venturi & Realino Marra -- Lessons from the past : monetary unions in the 19th century Europe / Lara Piccardo -- Robert Triffin et le processus d'integration monetaire europaenne / Ivo Maes -- Le plan werner et la d'couverte d'europe monataire / Andreas Wilkens -- The end of Bretton woods and the setting up of the snake / Maria Eleonora Guasconi -- The european monetary system / Giovanni Battista Pittaluga -- The role of Giulio Andreotti in the birth of the ems and of the monetary union / Daniela Preda -- La presidence Mitterrand, fer de lance de l'union monataire europaenne (1988-1992) / Jean-Marie Palayret -- The action of the European federalist movement for the European currency / Guido Montani -- L'euro entre problemes de naissance et incertitudes identitaires (1991-2016) / Carlo Degli Abbati -- Fiscal discipline and growth within emu / Alberto Majocchi -- Crisis and possible new start of integration process : beyond the Eurozone predicament / Franco Praussello -- From Pringle to Gauweiler : the difficult years of European monetary union and their impact on the EU legal system / Francesco Munari -- On the metamorphosis of the crisis and the prospects of the European economic governance / Adriano Giovannelli.