The rotten heart of Europe : the dirty war for Europe's money (New ed)

Aiming to destroy illusions about what lies at the heart of Europe, this book, published here in a revised and updated edition, provides answers to questions about European monetary union.

The author, who, when the book was first published, was dismissed as head of the Commission unit responsible for monitoring and servicing the ERM, offers a portrait of the motives of many Euro-propagandists.The book addresses topics such as the real motives underlying the Franco-German determination to suck European countries into the monetary union, why the French and Germans are applying intense pressure to recreate an exchange-rate agreement despite the political conflict and economic disarray that its earlier incarnation caused, and how so determined a leader as Margaret Thatcher could find herself forced into submission on the ERM.