Conference notes from the Cicero Seminar key issues in preparing for Economic and Monetary Union Paris, 9 & 10 October 1997

Abstract

Probably many people like me had similar ruminations about Economic and Monetary Union in a Europe of the 10, 12, 15 or perhaps 20 nations who may eventually be included at Stage 1, 2, 3 and 4, if and when any of these happen. But, for me at any rate, a happy set of circumstances, possibly triggered by my writing a letter to the editor of the Financial Times, led me to be invited to take part in one of the Cicero Foundation’s Great Debate Seminars. Joining me were fifteen participants from Rússia, Latvia, Poland, Turkey, Romania, the Czech Republic, Áustria, Sweden, the Netherlands, the UK, France, Portugal and the U.S.A., with speakers Corning from the E.M.I., the European Commission, theOECD, the European Parliament, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Sorbonne, the Manchester Metropolitan University and the Economist