The economic and institutional building of the Euro was a choice coherent with a strategy and a “Project” different from the Europe we were thinking about. The need to Introduce a new currency for the Southern European countries (France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece).
After 1989, the cold-war’s paranoia was replaced by the competition’s paranoia.The targets of the new EU’s measures are the European welfare systems with the varieties of social and labour rights established in the past.