The future role of the euro in the international arena If the euro has boosted European financial markets by reducing barriers to cross-border transactions, thus encouraging the emergence of a pan-European money market and a corporate bond market there can be no doubt that for assets denominated in euros, we are still a long way from the sort of liquid, efficient and active international markets that exist for the dollar. On the foreign exchange markets, the emergence of the euro has not really changed the relative position of the former European currencies vis-à-vis the dollar and the yen. And the shares in official reserves of Central Banks have also remained fairly stable What of the future ? Three major issues arise : - do Europeans w...