Books about Euro

What did the January 1999 arrival of the Euro mean, and how will it affect the rest of the world's currencies? PROMEURO, the organisation with the responsibility of promoting the Euro throughout the world, sets out to explain the introduction of Europe's own unit of currency.

The introduction of the euro may prove to be the greatest step forward in European unification since the Treaty of Rome. Despite official reports, however, the single currency is still poorly understood and often misrepresented. This collection of essays sets out the pros and cons of EMU.

Exploring undereported and often mischaracterised "Euro-sceptic" arguments over the goals and methods of European intergration, this collection brings together "Euro-sceptic", "Euro-pessimistic" and "Euro-phobic" speeches, essays and other documents that illustrate the range of opposition to the European Union. The balancing against the integrationalist goal of federalism, the guide gives a full airing to the various arguements against "ever-closer union". The reader offers classic statements of the "Europe of the Nations" views of Charles de Gaulle and Margaret Thatcher as well as French "sovereignists" such as Charels Pasqua and Jean-Pierre Chevenement, and includes more recent arguments by Michael Portillo and Noel Malcom. There are interviews with and analyses of far-right or "national right" movements and their leaders Jorg Haider and the Austria Freedom party and Jean-Marie Le Pen and the French National front. The special case of Norway - the only country that has said "no" (twice) to EU membership - is analyzed by a Norwegian scholar, and two historians argue that European intergration overall is in some sense a great illusion or a misguided "division of the West".

This goal-scoring guide tackles the pain and the glory of the European Championships. From the surprise defeats of Euro giants, to the historical battles that have ranged on and off the pitch.