Abstract
It is not obvious why a country with such a strong sense of national identity as France should be so ardent an advocate of pooling sovereignty in a European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Like its UK neighbour, which by contrast opted to keep its national currency, France has been a major colonial power and has a long history of independent foreign policy. It still maintains its own currency zone with a number of former African colonies.
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Caton, V. (2015). Introduction: Why Did France Want EMU?. In: France and the Politics of European Economic and Monetary Union. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137409171_1
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