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The euro is introduced

Jan 1999 · euro

The construction was unusual: a common monetary policy without a common fiscal one. Economists warned at the time that a shock affecting countries unevenly would be hard to manage, since no country could devalue its way out. The debt crisis after 2009 was the test of exactly that weakness, and led the union to build the shared crisis mechanisms it originally lacked.

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