Ideas and Elites. The Social Construction of Economic and Monetary Union

2002 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
Amy Verdun ◽  
Martin Marcussen
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Monetary Union ◽  
Economic And Monetary Union ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals Union économique et monétaire et État-Providence : la subsidiarité en question (Note)

2005 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadine Richez-Battesti
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Monetary Union ◽  
Fiscal Federalism ◽  
Social Regulation ◽  
Economic And Monetary Union ◽  
European Welfare State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
The Welfare State

This article seeks to analyze the social impacts of the Economic and Monetary Union and to reflect on the new modalities for producing social norms within this new context. First, after pointing out limits to the nominal convergence that the treaty stipulates for the interim phase, we mil present the new forms of adjustment pursuant to the EMU and their impacts on the welfare state. We will then turn to the responses of some economists to the introduction of a single currency and coordination of budgetary policies, including fiscal federalism. We will try to show the desirability of a European welfare state that would introduce some coherence between the different levels (local, national, Europe-wide) and forms (legislative and union-management) of social regulation ; in essence, a reworking of the idea of social subsidiarity.

Belgian politics in 1996

Res Publica ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 523-545
Author(s):  
Ivan Couttenier
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Monetary Union ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Legal Reform ◽  
Organized Labor ◽  
Economic And Monetary Union ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Eu

In 1996, Belgian politics centered around three major issues: the jobs contract, the 1997 budget and political fallout of the Dutroux affair (the four girls killed by a pedophile ring).During the first months of the year, Prime Minister Dehaene attempted to win support for a comprehensive jobs contract, but the draft agreement was turned down by the Socialist trade union militants. Nevertheless, the measures contained in the agreement were later implemented by the cabinet, without the consent of the employers and organized labor. Together with adjustments made to the social security system and implementation of budgetary measures needed to reach the conditions set by the EU for joining the Economic and Monetary Union, the jobs contract was implemented by means of special powers. The cabinet obtained these special powers from Parliament before the summer recess.  After the summer, as a result ofthe Dutroux alfair, the cabinet dealt with legal reform, in the process trying to quell tensions arisen among the law enforcement agencies.

Economic and Monetary Union and the Social Divide in France

1998 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard H. Moss
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Union ◽  
Work Force ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Economic And Monetary Union ◽  
World War ◽  
The Social ◽  
Oil Shock ◽  
Social Divide ◽  
Second World

Monetary policy since the Second World War has always been a politically and socially sensitive issue in France. It reflected the peculiar strength of the French Communist Party (PCF) in the unions and working class. Postwar governments relied upon monetary inflation, devaluation and administered credit to sustain growth and guarantee social peace. With the exception of the period following General de Gaulle's seizure of power in 1958, there was little choice for governments faced with weak, divided and conflicting unions, a volatile work force, and a united left threatening radical change. Where German governments responded to union challenges and the oil shock of 1974 with deflation, the French expanded the money supply. The divergence of French policy from German after 1968 made European economic and monetary union impossible.

Economic and Monetary Union – A Model for Flexibility?

1998 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 39-75
Author(s):  
John Usher
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Union ◽  
Maastricht Treaty ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic And Monetary Union ◽  
Member States ◽  
Community Institutions ◽  
Amsterdam Treaty ◽  
The Social ◽  
Differentiated Integration ◽  
To Receive

With hindsight, the Maastricht Treaty introduced two different forms of flexibility or differentiated integration. The Social Protocol took the form of a permission by all the Member States to a group of Member States to use Community institutions and legislation, which can be seen as the precursor of the general provisions on “closer cooperation” in the Amsterdam Treaty. On the other hand, the provisions on Economic and Monetary Union provide for some Member States to receive opt-outs or derogations from binding Treaty obligations and thus provide the model for the new Title of the EC Treaty on visa, asylum and immigration introduced by the Amsterdam Treaty.

L'hypothèse séparatiste vue dans sa perspective économique

Res Publica ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-392
Author(s):  
Hugo Schiltz
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Union ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Economic And Monetary Union ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Social

Separatism in Belgium does not impose itself, on the conditions that the Belgian Economic and Monetary Union does not force on Flanders toa large a cost, that Wallonia accepts the political prerequisites for thefunctioning of that Union and that federalism really is carried out.Actually these conditions are not fulfilled. Therefore the hypothesis of separatism has to be investigated.For Flanders, separatism economically offers more advantages than disadvantages. The budget equilibrium, the rates of interest, the social conditions and political stability would be improved, without the international solvability seriously affected.

4 Economic and Monetary Union – A Model for Flexibility?

1998 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 39-75
Author(s):  
John Usher
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Union ◽  
Maastricht Treaty ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic And Monetary Union ◽  
Member States ◽  
Community Institutions ◽  
Amsterdam Treaty ◽  
The Social ◽  
Differentiated Integration ◽  
To Receive

With hindsight, the Maastricht Treaty introduced two different forms of flexibility or differentiated integration. The Social Protocol took the form of a permission by all the Member States to a group of Member States to use Community institutions and legislation, which can be seen as the precursor of the general provisions on “closer cooperation” in the Amsterdam Treaty. On the other hand, the provisions on Economic and Monetary Union provide for some Member States to receive opt-outs or derogations from binding Treaty obligations and thus provide the model for the new Title of the EC Treaty on visa, asylum and immigration introduced by the Amsterdam Treaty.

The Social Construction of Our Bodies

1992 ◽  
Vol 37 (11) ◽  
pp. 1186-1186
Author(s):  
Garth J. O. Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
The Social
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