The Possible Effects of the UK Entry into the Euro on Foreign Trade and Foreign Direct Investment in the Country

The Euro has been in years in the making. The Treaty of Rome (1957) declared a common European market as a European objective with the aim of increasing economic prosperity and contributing to "an ever closer union among the peoples of Europe". The Single European Act (1986) and the Treaty on European Union (1992) have built on this, introducing Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and laying the foundations for our single currency. The third stage of EMU began on 1st January 1999, when the exchange rates of the participating currencies were irrevocably set. …