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“Managing from the Top”: Globalisation and the Rise of Regular Summmitry,...
Regular meetings of heads of state and government seem, in 2012, a common feature of international affairs. About forty years ago, however, such meetings did not really exist: ad hoc summits were the...
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Filling the EEC Leadership Vacuum? The Creation of the European Council at...
This article deals with a significant institutional step in the history of European integration, namely the legally non-binding decision to hold EEC heads of state and government meetings on a regular...
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German trade surpluses are making once again the headlines. The European Commission decided yesterday to launch an investigation into Berlin’s “excessive” trade surplus. This surplus is so large, the...
View ArticleThe coordination of EU budgets
The French government has just transmitted its 2015 draft budget for review to the European Commission. The possibility that the Commission may ‘invalidate’ this budget has shed light on the Excessive...
View ArticleA Capital Markets Union for Europe, from Claudio Segré to Jean-Claude Juncker
Jean-Claude Juncker launched the idea of a Capital Markets Union (CMU) on 15 July 2014 in a speech before the European Parliament. The objective was made plain in the title of Jonathan Hill’s portfolio...
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Beyond deus ex machina: Rethinking the EMS creation, 1974-1979
The traditional story of European monetary cooperation in the 1970s following the abandonment of the Werner Plan in 1974, most often told in textbooks but also in the specialised literature, can be...
View ArticleThe international use of the euro: What can we learn from past examples of...
This post was originally published on Bruegel’s blog. The recent State of the Union speech by Jean-Claude Juncker sparked a discussion about the potential wider use of the euro on the international...
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