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We need a European Monetary Fund, but how should it work?
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We need a European Monetary Fund, but how should it work?

André Sapir and Dirk Schoenmaker
Bruegel, 2017
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Over time, banking and sovereign debt crises have laid bare the original design flaws in the European Monetary Union (EMU), which sorely needed a blueprint to guide the region through financial tumult. According to this cogent essay by economists André Sapir and Dirk Schoenmaker, a transformation of the European Stability Mechanism – by expanding its responsibilities and reforming its governance – into a European Monetary Fund would help close gaps in the EMU edifice. getAbstract recommends this succinct but innovative text to policy analysts and experts.

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The Maastricht Treaty, the foundation for the European Monetary Union (EMU), lacked measures to address bank collapses and sovereign debt failures that could affect the region as a whole. Under the agreement, each member nation would fend for itself in the event it suffered a financial crisis. In this “EMU 1.0,” no provisions addressed liquidity or solvency issues across the group, nor did banks within the region share a process for risk monitoring. 

But subsequent economic problems in individual countries had severe impacts on the financial well-being of the entire bloc. Leaders then advanced...

About the Authors

André Sapir and Dirk Schoenmaker are economists with Bruegel, a European think tank.

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