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Banking and Finance Law

1998

Columbia Journal of European Law

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Reflections On The Papers Presented By Weiler, Goebel, And Meyers & Levie, George A. Bermann Jan 1998

Reflections On The Papers Presented By Weiler, Goebel, And Meyers & Levie, George A. Bermann

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The preceding papers amply demonstrate that an important step in the progressive integration of the European Union can be a compelling one without being an easy one. The transition to economic and monetary union (EMU) in Europe is precisely such a step. In this brief comment, I hope merely to show that, however powerful may be the case for economic and monetary union, passage to it is both generating institutional misgivings and entailing what could be institutional mistakes.

I begin with the case for economic and monetary union, which I consider to be a very strong one indeed. Not many …