-- The trouble with savings: from gold standard to euro -- Unnatural disaster: the high cost of taming

single European currency - the EURO, and discusses the sustainability of the single currency and global

present, Yoji Koyama provides unique and objective analyses of the European Union and the Euro system from

in the euro area is high and growing; Figure 9. Inequality is increasing in some euro area countries

Euro.

defeat? -- 14. Revisiting the theory of optimum currency areas -- 15. Lessons from the Euro sovereign

. The EU and the Euro Michele Chang 24. Our (Gracious?) Benefactors: US, Japan, China and East Asian

PART I: THE EURO: GENERAL REFLECTIONS 1. Euro: The Main Problems and the Solutions; Leszek

impact of the Single Supervisory Mechanism for euro area banks on the supervision of the EU financial

regulation, fiscal co-ordination, the crisis of the euro-zone, social policy and unemployment - allowing the

Areas 112 5.1 The EU Budget 113 5.2 The Euro 115 5.3 The Single Market 118 5.4 Social and

2: Euro and the Economic Crisis in Greece Basil Dalamagas Chapter 3: Doomed to Failure: The EU