European Monetary Union: Recent evolution and perspectives

ABSTRACT This paper discusses the uniqueness and the stability of the proposed model for the European Monetary Union - EMU, pointing out some of the difficulties faced in its implementation and the chances of surpassing them. It also suggests how all the points of European monetary integration - central bank independence, balanced budget and stability of the exchange rate within a certain band of fluctuation - are sustained upon the proposition that economy founds auto-adjustment since there is flexibility of wages and prices and the State’s intervention remains as short as possible. Thus, the need of convergence of economic and financial EMU’s criterion and the sufficiency of its achievement to a greater development of Europe in face of other countries bring the discussion back to the theoretical paradigm.