Abstract
French diplomatic efforts to promote closer economic and monetary integration at first made slow progress during the 1980s as the Germans, unsurprisingly, were comfortable with their commercial advantages under the European Monetary System (EMS), and the Bundesbank remained resolute in opposing any moves which could undermine its inflation-fighting mandate.
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Caton, V. (2015). 1984–88: How the EMU Treaty Project Took Shape. In: France and the Politics of European Economic and Monetary Union. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137409171_2
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