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General Sites The ECB’s public relations website on the euro – lots of general and specific information presented in a slick and well-written format (in a dozen languages!) For a higher, deeper treatment, you can scout around the ECB’s main website. It has a wealth of material on current conditions and many academic studies concerning Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). The Commission's presentation of the monetary union: Professor Giancarlo Corsetti's euro home page is the No.1 website on the euro area: Historical interest US-based economists were generally pessimistic about the euro before it was introduced. Here is one 1998 article – which proved to be completely wrong – that is indicative of the reasoning: 'The Collapse of the European Monetary Union', Charles W. Calomiris, Columbia Business School, NY. The Treaty of Maastricht Latest information The President of the ECB reports every quarter to the Committee of Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament. The transcripts of the meetings, termed 'Monetary Dialogue', as well as background reports, can be found at: Public opinion on the euro: A website dedicated to EONIA and interest rates in the euro area: Annual reports on the ECB by academic observers: 'Monitoring the ECB', published by the Centre for Economic Policy Research: Enlargement of the Monetary Union The UK government’s official website that presents the 'let’s join, but not now, argument' : Balanced by this very anti-euro UK site - opinionated but well done |