Political Economy of Financial Integration in Europe
Subtitle: The Battle of the Systems (European Policy Research Unit Series)
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: June 1998
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780719043123
Subjects: Public Policy - Economic Policy; European Economic Community; Political Science; Economic integration; European Union countries; Financial services industry; Business/Economics
First sentence: Both the Single European Act (SEA), launching the European Union's (EU) internal market programme and the Maastricht Treaty  signed on February 7, 1992 and aiming to create a single currency by 1999 at the latest  were initiated in the early 1980s when Europe and Germany were still divided along the lines of the Cold War.