The monetary and fiscal policies of the European Union - right or wrong?

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: 2,3, University of Applied Sciences Bremen, language: English, abstract: In the following home-exam I will write about the monetary and fiscal policies in Europe with the research question, does the EU do it right or wrong? I have chosen this topic because it is a current important but also very complex debate with different points of view. It starts with a the first point of my exam, the fiscal governance. It includes the fiscal policy rules, independet fiscal institutions, frameworks and the theory of optimum currency areas. The next point which is produced by the optimum currency areas, is the risk and bailout in the European Monetary Union. After this fiscal part I will focus on the topic of monetary policy. It includes the European Central Bank with it councils. The following part are the goals of the ECB and monetary policy. An interesting question like 'does only price stability matter?' will be answered. Afterwards I am going to write about the complexe instruments of the ECB. Near to the end I will give some important arguments for the question 'how advanced is the EU right now?' The last part is the conclusion. It will include all important facts of this work and answer the research question.