Committee for a European Monetary Union

The Committee for a European Monetary Union (Comité pour l'UM de l'Europe) was founded by Helmut Schmidt and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in 1986 as a private initiative. This was intended to encourage public and private acceptance and use of the ECU through discussions, public statements and detailed studies. to establish a common currency. Some entrepreneurs and managers belonged to the committee for a European monetary union, for example: Hans Merkel , Giovanni Agnelli or Cornelis van der Klugt .

In an opinion poll conducted by the Committee for a European Monetary Union among around 1000 European top managers, there was fundamentally great interest in a single currency.

Individual evidence

↑ Helmut Schmidt in " One for all ", " The euro increases prosperity and global political weight: The idea of the single currency - and what became of it ", Zeit-Online from November 15, 2001, S 5/6. [1]
↑ In 1988 an action program was published in which some suggestions from the Delors report were taken up (Walter Hallstein Institute, Paper 4/03 (" The Constitutional Convention "), Item II.2 (" The President ")).
↑ Wolfgang Filc , Claus Köhler , Lothar Hübl , Rüdiger Pohl , " Challenges of Economic Policy ", " Festschrift for the 60th Birthday of Claus Köhler ", Duncker & Humblot , Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-428-06377-5 , p. 279, Fn. 29.
^ ^A ^b Theo Sommer in " Our Schmidt ", " The statesman and publicist ", Hofmann and Campe Verlag , Hamburg 2010, p. 141, ISBN 978-3-455-50176-6 .
^ Association for the Monetary Union of Europe, European Business and the ECU, Results of a Survey, Paris October 25, 1988, quoted from Detlev W. Rahmsdorf : Currency Policy. In: Yearbook of European Integration. 1988/89, p. 118.

[1] Helmut Schmidt in " One for all ", " The euro increases prosperity and global political weight: The idea of the single currency - and what became of it ", Zeit-Online from November 15, 2001, S 5/6. [1]

[2] In 1988 an action program was published in which some suggestions from the Delors report were taken up (Walter Hallstein Institute, Paper 4/03 (" The Constitutional Convention "), Item II.2 (" The President ")).

[3] Wolfgang Filc , Claus Köhler , Lothar Hübl , Rüdiger Pohl , " Challenges of Economic Policy ", " Festschrift for the 60th Birthday of Claus Köhler ", Duncker & Humblot , Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-428-06377-5 , p. 279, Fn. 29.

[Sommer-4] A ^b Theo Sommer in " Our Schmidt ", " The statesman and publicist ", Hofmann and Campe Verlag , Hamburg 2010, p. 141, ISBN 978-3-455-50176-6 .

[5] Association for the Monetary Union of Europe, European Business and the ECU, Results of a Survey, Paris October 25, 1988, quoted from Detlev W. Rahmsdorf : Currency Policy. In: Yearbook of European Integration. 1988/89, p. 118.