The French Road to the European Monetary Union - French Politics, Society and Culture

Synopsis

The logic behind European monetary co-operation and integration can only be understood through an examination of French efforts to maximize their monetary power in relation to Germany and America. This text provides a study of the motives and economic and political attitudes that shaped French policy on European developments over a thirty-year period, from the collapse of the International Monetary System in the late 1960s and early 1970s through to the start of EMU on 1 January 1999.