Il ruolo delle politiche di bilancio nell'integrazione economica dell'Europa. (The role of fiscal policy in Europe’s economic integration) by G. CAMPA

“…The author argues that if an economic and monetary union requires a regionally oriented policy of stabilisation and development, the short and medium term economic policy, in the case of budgetary instruments, needs to be realised through a supranational discipline with more detailed ways in which resources can and must be transferred from one region to another and in which these resources may be exempted from different regions.   …”
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Differentiated Regional (Dis)Integration Post Brexit by M. V. Strezhneva

“…Cases of the Economic and Monetary Union and the Northern Ireland Protocol receive separate treatment. …”
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Comparative effect of short-term credit granted to agriculture on agricultural added value in the West African countries by Laurent Oloukoi

“…Purpose – The paper analyzes the response of agricultural value added to credit and real interest rate shocks in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) and make a short-term comparative effect analysis of credit granted to the agricultural sector on agricultural value added among member countries. …”
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Limits of competence of a forensic commodity expert in determining the characteristics of goods in cases of customs rules violation by S. О. Diachuk

“…Today, all goods, regardless of the country of origin, are subject to classification, that is, codes are determined for goods in accordance with the classification groupings specified in the UCC of the Economic and Monetary Union. Expertise on determining the conformity of the characteristics of goods according to the UCC FEA, regardless of the purpose of establishing the code, is only a means of establishing the circumstances of implementation, that is, the characteristics on which the definition of the goods code is based, but by its task it cannot support the adoption of a decision on the determination interpretation of the product code according to the UCC FEA. …”
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Euroscepticism in Italy: Evolution of Northern League Political Program by Oleg N. Barabanov, Mariia O. Shibkova

“…Being initially a continual supporter of European integration and considering the transition to common currency as an opportunity available only to northern regions, which could secede and form an independent state, Northern League after losing the main point of its political agenda when the whole Italy joined the Economic and Monetary Union in 1998, became a eurosceptically-oriented party, which it is up to now. …”
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Authoritarian Liberalism by Alexander Somek

“…The article suggests that this notion can be fruitfully used to designate the new governance of economic and monetary union. It argues, particularly, that it makes sense to speak of an authoritarian style of governance even if the latter does not wear vestiges of outright repression. …”
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Slowly, we are Growing together – European Economic Policy and Statistics by Aurel Schubert, Luis Serna

“…Where as economic statistics once played a role in relatively marginal areas of European policy, the establishment of the macroeconomic convergence criteria for joining Economic and Monetary Union in the Maastricht Treaty in 1992–1993 sparked a quantum leap. …”
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The CFA Franc : A currency by any other name?​  by Gopaldas, Ronak

“…As 2019 drew to a close, West Africa’s Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) and France announced the renaming of the CFA Franc — their common currency — as the Eco. …”
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Economic governance and security perspective in West Africa: The role of ECOWAS by Terwase, Isaac Terungwa, Abdul Talib, Asmat Nizam, Zengeni, Knocks Tapiwa

“…It is therefore, the goals and objective of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is to promote regional integration and co-operation for the purpose ensuring economic growth and development through economic and monetary union among the states in the sub-region.The endowed resources in West African states are mostly untapped due to challenges that face the region such as lack of technological know-how, bad governance, political instability, lack of adequate diversification, infrastructure problem, lack of political will and the inability to involve the private sector, partnership with other countries outside Africa.The objective of this research is therefore, to create an environment where peace and security is sustainable for West African states to engineer economic governance through regional integration and economic co-operation among the countries in West Africa, partnership with the private sector, other African countries, the international community, and as well as countries from Asia, America, Europe and Australia which will lead to economic growth and development in West African States.The methodology used in this research is review of previous literatures and the use of content analysis which will also provide useful information on the available resources in the region.The findings from this study thus, the security of the West African states is very essential for the purpose of economic governance to be effective in the region where the states can engage in economic integration and co-operation. …”
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SOME ASPECTS CONCERNING SOVEREIGN DEBT AND THE RELATIVITY OF INDEBTEDNESS INDICATORS by Deceanu Liviu-Daniel, Ciobanu Gheorghe

“…This crisis, which we would put on the account of the governance inconsistency and errors, starting with the unprepared entry in the European Union and hasty adoption of the Euro, and continuing with the serious fiscal disorder in the economy, put in difficulty even the single European currency and the economic and monetary union.Shortly after the start of the Greek crisis, which had as a "catalyst" the violent and pro-cyclical reaction of rating agencies, we found that the problem is much deeper, some other countries (the so-called "PIIGS", for example) being affected by massive indebtedness. …”
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Quality management: the challenges of regional governance in West Africa by Osseni Loukoumanou, Charki Abdérafi, Kebe Fadel, Calchera Gilles, Martin Luc, Bonnier Georges

“…With a total area of 3 509 600 km2 and a population of over 80 340 000 people, the eight WAEMU countries (the West Africa Economic and Monetary Union) have many products to offer the international market. …”
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Features of Norwegian model of the integration with the EU: experience for Ukraine by O. M. Rudik

“…The country is not a member of the EU and it does not participate in any decision-making and policy-making process in the EU and it is also excluded from important aspects of the cooperation, such as Economic and Monetary Union and Common external and security policy. …”
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European Economic Governance in a Post-crisis Era - A Conceptual Appraisal by Paul Dermine

“…. | (Abstract) EU economic governance, as organized in the Treaties and implemented during the first years of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), strongly echoed the philosophy of "new governance" theories, and closely resembled the general patterns of the Open Method of Coordination (OMC). …”
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Teoria optymalnych obszarów walutowych a budowa unii walutowej w Europie by Rafał Riedel

“…It is therefore legitimate to challenge the intellectual foundations of the Economic and Monetary Union, namely the ‘Optimal Currency Areas’ (OCA) theory by Robert Mundell. …”
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The European Pillar of Social Rights – Tell Me Where You Come from and I Will Tell You Who You Are by Silvia Rainone


“…As stated in the 2015 Five Presidents Report, the re-launch of EU economy depended on the deepening of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) which, in turn, needed greater focus on employ-ment and on social performance. …”
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GOVERNANCE, CULTURE AND DEMOCRACY: INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF EU MEMBER STATES by Bartha Attila

“…It provides some contributions to the institutionalist debate of the present crisis of the European Union, and within it, the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). The two main issues of the empirical research are the effect of the different institutions on economic growth and the relative importance of institutions compared with the traditional macroeconomic components of economic development. …”
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Mandatory health insurance and health care utilization in Togo by Dossè Mawussi Djahini-Afawoubo, Segnon T. Aguey

“…Methods We use data from the Harmonized Survey on Living Conditions of Households (EHCVM), conducted in the member states of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) in 2018–2019 and covering 6,171 households in Togo. …”
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Economic analysis between foreign bias, home bias, economic growth and return correlation by Lee, Pei Ling

“…Other traditional financial barriers such as home bias, geographical distance, financial development, common membership in the European Economic and Monetary Union are significant in explaining foreign bias based on the random-effectstobit model. …”
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Health expenditure: how much is spent on health and care worker remuneration? An analysis of 33 low- and middle-income African countries by Hapsatou Toure, Maria Aranguren Garcia, Juana Paola Bustamante Izquierdo, Seydou Coulibaly, Benjamin Nganda, Pascal Zurn

“…West African countries, particularly members of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), were lower spenders than countries in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), both in terms of the share of country health expenditure and in terms of government efforts/participation. …”
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Tre proposte per rivitalizzare l’Unione Europea (Three proposals for revitalising the European Union) by Mario Tonveronachi

“…If successfully implemented, it would contribute to give a viable perspective to the design of the Economic and Monetary Union, capable of attracting those EU non-euro area countries that consider the mismanagement of the recent crisis and of its after-effects reason enough for resisting further losses of sovereignty. …”
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