Rising inequality in the Eurozone underlines the need for a fiscal union

How has inequality within Eurozone states changed during the pursuit of Economic and Monetary Union? Dawid Sawicki writes that in the majority of Eurozone members income inequality has increased substantially since 1990. He argues that this is partly the result of a lack of automatic stabilisers within the Eurozone that can compensate for economic shocks, and that the increase in inequality presents a compelling case for a genuine fiscal union between those countries using the single currency - encompassing a supranational body at the EU level with responsibility for fiscal policy.

ESO: Background information: What will become of the Eurozone? http://www.europeansources.info/record/what-will-become-of-the-eurozone/

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