Talk:European Monetary Union

We already have euro, and at the moment this article just has the same information as euro does. So lets just get rid of this article, or reduce it to a short explanation of what the term "European Monetary Union" means, and just have a link to euro for the rest. -- SJK


 * If you think you combine the two articles, go ahead. But UK and 2 other European countries are staying out of the EMU, for their own reasons. It might be better to have a separate article, if for nothing other than to explore their reasons for opting out. --Ed Poor

I agree we could have room for multiple articles on the euro, and different aspects of it--e.g. a Euro debate (can anyone think of a better term?) article on the current debating in the UK, Denmark & Sweden on whether to join. But EMU isn't going to be it -- "EMU" is just a technical term meaning roughly "the situation that several EU members have agreed to adopt a single currency, the Euro". Maybe we could discuss comparisons with the more general phenomena of monetary unions, e.g. the Latin Monetary Union in the 19th century. But this article isn't the place for the membership debate.

Okay, I replaced the content of this page, and moved the links to euro. I think the rest of the content was already in euro anyway, in a different form, but if I missed anything important feel free to dig it out of the history and add it to the euro article.

I just thought of one use this article might have: a history of the efforts that led to the creation of the euro (which were reffered to as european monetary union), if we don't want to fill up euro with too much. - SJK

There is a significant problem with this page: EMU doesn't stand for "European Monetary Union" it stands for "Economic and Monetary Union". The 'E' confused you.

Aris Katsaris 21:29, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)