Objective The project investigates European policymakers’ views about how to make the European EconomicCommunity (EEC) fit for a monetary union. It will thus assess the origins of the issues that are currentlybedevilling the EU.From the EEC creation in 1957 to the decision to create the euro in 1992, several proposals were tabledto improve the functioning of the EEC as a possible currency area. Five interconnected domains are crucialto achieve economic integration in a currency union, and were continuously discussed before 1992:macroeconomic policy coordination, fiscal transfers, capital market integration, banking regulation, anddeepening of the common/single market. The project will provide the first historical appraisal of theseproposals and debates, and identify the dynamics of political and economic trade-offs and compromises,shifting priorities, and alternative approaches abandoned at the time but recycled later.The project intertwines international, legal, political, and economic history approaches in order toprovide a thorough portrait of European policymakers’ paradigms, goals, and constraints in envisioning aneconomic union in a changing global context. It relies on pioneering multilateral, multi-archival researchanalysing material from all member states and EEC institutions.The project also intends to encourage the study of the critical influence of non-EEC and non-state actorsand factors on the European decision-making level. To this end, the PI will lead a team of two PhD studentsand two Postdocs to explore specific case studies involving commercial banks, big business, trade unions andthe evolution of economic thinking.The project aims to link the usually insulated scholarships of European integration, postwar Europeanhistory, and national histories of economic policymaking. It will shed new light on the EU’s post-Maastrichtevolution and contextualise the Eurozone’s current challenges by providing a deeper understanding of itsfoundations. Programme(s) H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme Topic(s) ERC-2016-STG - ERC Starting Grant Call for proposal ERC-2016-STG See other projects for this call Funding Scheme ERC-STG - Starting Grant Coordinator UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW Net EU contribution € 1 498 451,00 Address University avenue G12 8QQ Glasgow United Kingdom See on map Region Scotland West Central Scotland Glasgow City Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 Beneficiaries (1) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW United Kingdom Net EU contribution € 1 498 451,00 Address University avenue G12 8QQ Glasgow See on map Region Scotland West Central Scotland Glasgow City Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00
