TY - BOOK AU - SANDHOLTZ, Wayne TI - Choosing union : monetary politics and Maastricht PY - 1993/// N2 - Argues that a drastic shift in the macroeconomic policies of several national governments was a necessary precondition for serious consideration of monetary union. Points out that monetary union was just one option for a European monetary regime, and traces the chain of decisions leading to the conference on monetary union. Concludes that EC governments favoured monetary union for different reasons, at different times ER -