The Euro Grows Up

For the year 2004 the total amount spent will be up to 3.1 million Euro.

Superior German economic performance has bid up the euro and European interest rates to levels that, while comfortable for the Germans, put pressure on the euro zone s laggards. The appropriate level of the euro for the Germans is too high for the French and Italians.

Payments have been made to 102 beneficiaries eligible for Euro 2000 start up assistance, out of 487 completed files.

Farewell to the Euro?

Files were completed for 487 of the 632 beneficiaries eligible for Euro 2000 start up assistance.

Euro

Euro

EURO

Don t Lend to Your Euro Friends

How to Resolve the Euro Crisis

Euro area

Euro House

Euro Techno

The new rates are effective from the school year in progress on 1 January 2005. The currency areas where increases were approved are as follows Austria (euro), Belgium (euro), Denmark (krone), France (euro), Germany (euro), Ireland (euro), Italy (euro), Japan (yen), Netherlands (euro), Spain (euro), Sweden (krona), Switzerland (Swiss franc), United Kingdom (pound sterling), United States dollar in the United States and the United States dollar outside the United States.

Argentina s Warning to Would Be Euro Deserters

Exchange rate euro to United States dollar

Includes payments to Euro Airtraffic Control Services.

The upcoming discussions initiated by the European Parliament regarding the setting up of a Euro Mediterranean parliamentary dialogue will be crucial to that achievement.

(a) Effective 1 January 2002, the euro should be used as the official currency for those emoluments which are currently set in the national currencies of the twelve euro zone countries, and that the national currency amounts would be converted by applying the respective fixed conversion rates and then rounded up or down to the nearest euro

Depreciation of the euro would be the best medicine for restoring international price competitiveness to the periphery countries and reviving their export sectors. Of course, they would devalue on their own had they not given up their currencies for the euro ten years before the crisis (and if it were not for their euro denominated debt).

A Euro Sabbatical

The Euro Ark

The Naked Euro

What Euro Crisis?

The good news is that economic growth in the euro zone economy appears to be picking up (even in Italy). Though second quarter GDP growth was weak the euro zone average was only 0.3 year on year third quarter data are indicating a sustained economic pick up in the second half of the year.

Leaders must start living up to the responsibilities that come with sharing a single currency. They must recognize the impact that national economic policies have on the euro area as a whole, and thus discuss and coordinate economic programs at the euro area level.

The IMF s Euro Crisis

David Cameron s Euro Nemesis

Building on the Euro

Germany versus the Euro

Emerging Markets Euro Nemesis

Making the Euro Whole

Slamming the Euro Door

As for economists like me, who have balked at advocating an end to the failed euro experiment and favored reform, perhaps it is time to admit defeat and move on. If only anti Europeans oppose EMU, the EU baby could end up being thrown out with the euro bathwater.

The euro is now six years old. It is past time to consider how it is performing, and whether it has lived up to the expectations that accompanied its birth.

The continuing absence of such policies is the gravest threat to the euro. Unless that changes, markets will wake up to that risk perhaps with a jolt sooner or later.

A Centerless Euro Cannot Hold

B. Introduction of the euro

Moving on From the Euro

Can the Euro Be Repaired?

Germany Must Defend the Euro

Should Germany Exit the Euro?

Euro Lessons for East Asia

Striking Euro Gold (and Silver)