This book adopts a comprehensive approach, combining the views of economists and political scientists, to assess the threats of maintaining the non-collaborative stance that prevailed in the response to past crises, and to explore new solutions to the present emergency. The coronavirus pandemic...

1. The Future of the Euro Zone: A Reflection Paper on the North/South Divide -- 2. European Monetary Union and the Covid-19 Crisis: A Tightrope Act with the Risk of Falling -- 3. Europe at the Crossroads of the COVID-19 Crisis: Integrated Macroeconomic Policy Solutions for an Asymmetric Area --...

The euro monetary union with a flawed conceptual framework / Vítor Bento -- The endogeneity of OCA conditions and macroeconomic imbalances in EMU / Carlos Vieira and Isabel Vieira, Department of Economics, Universidade de Évora and CEFAGE, Évora, Portugal -- Trends in business cycles...