Publication

The above mentioned positive redistribution effect on a European scale between the North and the South (and later on, between the West and the East) could be endangered by the longterm effects of EMU. The proponents of EMU maintained all along, that it will be engine of political and economic unification on the continent. We fear, that the long-term effect of the project will be an increasing nationalism and a cultural conflict along the old cultural frontier, the Limes, between the Latin and the Germanic Europe, between the wine and the beer culture, between the olive oil consumers and the sausage eaters.