Harold James — Making the European Monetary Union

Recent policy and academic debates have begun to influence Eurozone reform. But how sound is the advice we give out? This column argues that calls for a Eurozone or full-fledged EU superstate are overstated. Yes, developing an adequate system of European banking supervision is a matter of urgency if we hope to tackle the threat posed by an overdeveloped and opaque financial system. But calling for a superstate misunderstands the reasons politicians introduced the euro in the first place.

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Making the European Monetary Union
Harold James | Professor of History and International Affairs and the Claude and Lore Kelly Professor of European Studies, Princeton University