Free (Kindle) End of the Euro: Uneasy Future [EU Economics & Politics Current Events]

[ATDrake]

The End of the Euro: The Uneasy Future of the European Union by Johan Van Overtveldt (Wikipedia), a former journalist who has become the current Finance Minister of Belgium in the years since this was originally published, is his quasi-academic introductory historical overview and then-current events analysis of the euro currency and the effects of the recent economic crises in various EU countries on the stability of the EU itself, free courtesy of publisher Agate's B2 imprint.

This has previously been offered free in 2013, and has quite a lot of praise quoted in the editorial reviews, as well as for the author's other economics journalism books.

Currently free @ Amazon (not available to Canadians).

If you're interested, the publisher's webstore page has a video clip of a news segment discussion with the author (scroll down near the end).

Description
The End of the Euro begins with an overview of the birth of the euro itself. Understanding this history is essential to understand the anomalies built into the project from the beginning.

These anomalies form the subject of chapter two, along with how they led to the situation that turned Greece, Portugal, and Spain into euro-destroying economic disaster areas. Chapter three shows how this was not an unforeseeable situation, as Europe’s history is filled with earlier failed attempts to build monetary unions. Chapter four is focused on Germany, by far the most important country within EMU, and why the chances of Germany leaving the union are much higher than is generally assumed.

The book concludes with an analysis of what lies in wait for the remains of the monetary union — and for a deeply divided and troubled continent in general. Either the EMU transforms itself fundamentally or it disintegrates.