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L’ingresso dell’Italia nell’euro. La battaglia diplomatica per l’accesso alla moneta unica europea

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  • Mauro Battocchi

    (Ministero degli Affari Esteri, Roma)

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Contrary to the expectations of most observers and despite the dramatic state of its public finances in the early Nineties, Italy joined the euro from the outset on January 1st, 1999. Compliance with the Maastricht criteria was the necessary, but not sufficient condition for this historic achievement. As of June 1996, Italy’s government waged a diplomatic campaign that wreaked havoc with the German view of a European restricted “hard-core”. The increasing strain on Germany’s public finances over the course of 1997, coupled with France’s government change, was decisive to enable Italy to break through.

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  • Mauro Battocchi, 2011. "L’ingresso dell’Italia nell’euro. La battaglia diplomatica per l’accesso alla moneta unica europea," Rivista di Politica Economica, SIPI Spa, issue 3, pages 35-82, JULY-SEPT.
    • Handle: RePEc:rpo:ripoec:y:2011:i:3:p:35-82
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    Keywords

    unione monetaria; unione europea;

    JEL classification:

    • E2 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment
    • E65 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Studies of Particular Policy Episodes
    • E61 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Policy Objectives; Policy Designs and Consistency; Policy Coordination

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