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The European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) is already ten years old and the UK still have not decided to join it. Despite some timid attempts to revamp the debate about British entry into the EMU made by the early Labour administration, the issue has been left aside for a long time, to surge again to the attention of the public only with the explosion of the global financial crisis.
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Talani, L.S. (2010). The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on the City of London: Will the UK Finally Decide to Join the EMU?. In: Talani, L.S. (eds) The Global Crash. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230281530_8
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