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Were Germany’s objectives in the creation of the euro solely monetary, or were political and geo-political considerations uppermost? How did the dark shadow of Germany’s Nazi past influence the journey to this end? How far did interests of the export sector and the links of big business to the CDU (and Kohl’s need for funds) all play into the final outcome? These questions and the critical trade-offs between French and German interests are the subject of this chapter.
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Brown, B., Simonnot, P. (2020). How the Euro Was Born. In: Europe's Century of Crises Under Dollar Hegemony. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46653-4_10
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