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At the moment of its setting up the Economic and Monetary Union did not meet the criteria of the optimum currency area. Neither does it today. The crisis of public finance in the eurozone results from the abandonment public finance reforms, lack of consistency in enforcing the decision of the Stability and Growth Pact and, additionally, economic recession and financial crisis. Further functioning of the eurozone will depend on radical reforms of public finance and structural reforms enhancing efficiency of the market as an adjustment mechanism, and competitiveness of economies. The very establishment of the European Stabilization Mechanism and European Financial Stability cannot make up for the above mentioned necessary undertakings. It is important to change the socioeconomic model existing in the EU member countries.
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Bukowski, S.I. Economic and Monetary Union – Current Fiscal Disturbances and the Future. Int Adv Econ Res 17, 274–287 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11294-011-9310-7
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Keywords
- Monetary union
- OCA criteria
- Fiscal policy
- Monetary policy
- Recession
- Sovereign debt
- Public debt
- Fiscal destabilization