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SUMMARY:The Cold War origins of the Euro - Dr Duncan Needham\, Faculty of 
 History
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CONTACT:Dr Duncan Needham
DESCRIPTION:On 1 January 2002\, the citizens of the Euro-zone forsook ‘t
 he coins for Cortez’ men looking out on to Darien\; the money of Mozart 
 for his music and Molière for his manuscripts\; of Tiberius for his treas
 ure and Krupp for his cannon’.  European statesmen had long contemplated
  monetary union\, unafraid to evoke the memory of Charlemagne to soothe de
 ep-seated national hostilities.   But while the major European currencies 
 had been pegged for most of the previous century\, the Euro was a differen
 t proposition.   Why\, three years after locking their exchange rates\, di
 d the 315 million citizens of nations as geographically and culturally dis
 tinct as Finland\, Greece and Luxembourg awake to find themselves using th
 e same notes and coin?\n\nThis paper explains the genesis of the Euro with
 in the strategic concerns of the two principal players\, France and German
 y.  Others were involved\, but with these two countries comprising more th
 an half the Euro-zone’s economic output\, Franco-German policy was param
 ount.  As Charles de Gaulle pointed out in the early 1960s\, ‘l’Europe
 \, c’est la France et l’Allemagne.  Les autres\, c’est les légumes
 ’.
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
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