Private Sector Involvement in the EMU The Power of Ideas Routledge Advances in European Politics 10 1st editon by Stefan Collignon 1134417020 9781134417025

1. Introduction: Public Consensus and EMU

Grasping Actors Beyond the State

Research On EMU: State of the Art

Consensus and the Construction of Social Reality

2. Foundations

The Origins of the Giscard–Schmidt Committee (CMUE)

A Joint Grand Strategy

The Committee’s Ideas and Activities

The Association for the Monetary Union of Europe (AMUE)

3. A Common or a Single Currency?

Hopes and Doubts About the Ecu

Delors’ Ambivalence

A Strategy for the Ecu

Interrogations

4. The Crises and the Phoenix

The Maastricht Treaty

The European Monetary System In Crisis

Preparing the Changeover

5. Campaigning for EMU

The Populist Temptation

German Dissensus Over EMU

Convergence and Dissent In Europe

Mediating Across the Borders

Epilogue

Methodological Challenges

Political Implications

Annexe 1: Introduction

Individual Preferences

Social Preferences

Collective Preferences

Annexe 2: The Crises and the Phoenix

Annexe 3: Campaigning for EMU

A Two-Sector Model of Profit Margins

Annexe 4: List of Interviewees

Interviews

Informal Discussions

Annexe 5: List of Expert Groups

Study for the European Parliament On EMS Reform

The Sustainability Report Working Group

Annexe 6: List of Former AMUE Board Members

Notes

1. Introduction

2. Foundations

3. A Common or a Single Currency?

4. The Crises and the Phoenix

5. Campaigning for EMU

Epilogue

Annexe

Bibliography