Download or read book France and the Politics of European Economic and Monetary Union written by V. Caton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did France, with its strong sense of national identity, want to give up the Franc for the Euro? This book, by a former British diplomat in Paris, draws on new archive evidence to explore France's drive for European Economic and Monetary Union, and how unresolved Franco-German tensions over its design led to crisis.