The economic and monetary union involves the coordination of member states’ economic and fiscal policies alongside a single monetary policy for member states that have introduced the euro. It ...

On April 20, 2000, in Accra, Ghana, the leaders of six West African countries 1 declared their intention to proceed to monetary union among the non-CFA 2 franc countries of the region by January 2003, ...

In 1999, eleven European countries adopted the euro as their common currency (Greece followed in 2001). This followed a long period of gradually tying their national currencies together more tightly ...