The Euro: Consequences for the Consumer and the Citizen (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780792385936)

"EURO". The name of the single currency for the European Union has not been chosen casually by the Heads of State and Government during the Madrid Council of December 1995. After tough discus- sions, it has been unanimously accepted. The intention was to recall to every single citizen that this new money would be his money, that it would be the expression of the new European environment carefully built since the "fifties" to avoid any return to war and barbarism in Europe. Confidence and positive expectations for a better future put in the European construction have thus been clearly linked to the confidence in the new European currency and vice-versa. Euro notes and coins will be the first expression, clear, material and universal (for any European citizen being young or old, rich or poor, but also for the rest of the world) of a European identity alongside the national one. Obviously, it is of the outmost importance that the change over to the euro, be as smooth and as citizen-friendly as possible.

Author: Thierry Vissol
ISBN-10: 0792385934
ISBN-13: 9780792385936
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 10/31/1999
Pages: 263
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2000 pg. 88