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The Euro: the History, Issues and Solutions
Section 1: Introduction
Lecture 1: Introduction (4:41)
Lecture 2: Interview with Alfred Mifsud, Your Course Subject Expert (7:39)
Lecture 3: How to approach this course
Section 2: What Is A Monetary Union?
Lecture 4: Section introduction by Alfred Mifsud (1:29)
Lecture 5: Understanding monetary unions (6:38)
Lecture 6: Definitions of monetary unions
Lecture 7: The creation of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) of the European Union (2:32)
Lecture 8: A brief history of how the EMU was formed
Lecture 9: The problems with the stability of the EMU (5:55)
Lecture 10: An obvious stability issue
Lecture 11: The history of monetary unions (6:34)
Lecture 12: Conclusions from the history of other monetary unions
Section 3: The Main Causes Of Instability In The EMU
Lecture 13: Section introduction by Alfred Mifsud (2:55)
Lecture 14: An optimum euro area (5:09)
Lecture 15: Who would have qualified for an optimum EMU?
Lecture 16: A closer look at Greece, Portugal, Italy and Spain (4:59)
Lecture 17: What is the stability and growth pact? (Article)
Lecture 18: The curious case of Ireland (5:29)
Lecture 19: The Ireland case study
Lecture 20: Fiscal discipline (6:10)
Lecture 21: The 2006 changes to the SGP (Stability & Growth Pact)
Lecture 22: Where does this lead us? (1:53)
Lecture 23: Conclusion about the EMU's instability
Section 4: The Euro Survived
Lecture 24: Section introduction by Alfred Mifsud (1:17)
Lecture 25: Predicting the problems (5:26)
Lecture 26: On the edge... Is this really the End? (The Economist Covers)
Lecture 27: The Euro's near death experience (4:50)
Lecture 28: Policy measures taken to support the EMU
Section 5: What Is Being Proposed? Is It Practical? Is It Enough?
Lecture 29: Section introduction by Alfred Mifsud (3:44)
Lecture 30: Deepening of the Economic Monetary Union (4:40)
Lecture 31: The Five Presidents' report and the Reflection paper
Lecture 32: Risk reduction or risk sharing? (5:09)
Lecture 33: Reduction of Non Performing Loans (NPLs) in the banking system (2:14)
Lecture 34: Addressing the NPL risk
Lecture 35: Elimination of the doom-loop between the banks and their sovereign (3:24)
Lecture 36: Addressing the doom-loop between banks and their sovereign
Lecture 37: Limping from crisis to crisis (6:13)
Your Thoughts
Section 6: Patching Up Won't Work Anymore
Lecture 38: Section introduction by Alfred Mifsud (3:43)
Lecture 39: The German election (4:37)
Lecture 40: The United States of Europe (4:50)
Lecture 41: France and Macron (4:12)
Lecture 42: The two proposals - Schulz and Macron
Section 7: Priority To Removing Inbuilt Unfairness In EMU And Getting It To Work For All
Lecture 43: Introduction by Alfred Mifsud (3:43)
Lecture 44: The EMU disequilibrium (2:23)
Lecture 45: Taking appropriate steps
Lecture 46: Applying opposite forces at both ends (4:52)
Lecture 47: Rethinking the approach to debt restructuring
Lecture 48: Leaving the euro (1:41)
Lecture 49: The limits of the ECB's monetary policy (4:51)
Lecture 50: The ECB's approach
Lecture 51: How Germany benefited in the crisis (5:13)
Lecture 52: Boosting Germany's competitiveness
Lecture 53: Summarising the disequilibria (6:15)
Lecture 54: Four elements for repairing the Monetary Union
Section 8: What Needs To Be Done
Lecture 55: Introduction by Alfred Mifsud (6:49)
Lecture 56: Are people in favour of a Monetary Union?
Lecture 57: Blaming the euro and the rise of populism (3:34)
Lecture 58: The fairness is missing (8:49)
Lecture 59: Example - The unfair advantage
Lecture 60: Addressing the unfairness (6:05)
Lecture 61: Treating the symptoms
Lecture 62: Calculating the structural part of a surplus (4:31)
Lecture 63: Defining macroeconomic imbalances
Lecture 64: Improving fiscal discipline (4:01)
Lecture 65: Central debt agency
Lecture 66: Summarising what can be done (3:35)
Section 9: Conclusion - Getting Things Done By Explaining The Bigger Costs Of Doing Nothing
Lecture 67: Introduction by Alfred Mifsud (4:25)
Lecture 68: The euro journey is still at the beginning (5:22)
Lecture 69: Conclusion (5:28)
Lecture 70: Final words by Alfred Mifsud
Lecture 71: Wrapping up the course (1:58)
Lecture 72: Free eBook and Audiobook of 'The Euro - Cure or Curse for the Future of the EU?'
Lecture 36: Addressing the doom-loop between banks and their sovereign
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