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This short paper sets out background to current EU policy on European and Monetary Union (EMU), looking at both the management of monetary policy focusing on the Euro and the parallel system for economic policy coordination which is primarily the responsibility of member states. It describes the way in which EU countries coordinate economic policy (notably through the Economic Reform Programmes and processes such as deficit reduction procedures) and how the EU institutions will support countries in the delivery of EU policies, including the mobilisation of investment funds to support EU policy priorities. It then looks as Scotland's experience, describes the most recent Scottish Economic Reform Programme 2016 and postulates that the close degree of alignment between Scottish and EU economic and social priorities would allow a basis for joint working if Scotland decides to pursue a more close approach to EU policies than the rest of the UK. It also notes that if Scotland pursues the independence in Europe option, Euro membership would not be an issue of substance in the early years and that the focus of EMU discussions would likely be on the need for a deficit reduction programme for Scotland.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contributors -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Colonial Scotland: The English in Scotland under Edward I -- 2. The Anglo-Scottish Marches in the Fifteenth Century: A Frontier Society? -- 3. Crown and Nobility in Late Medieval Britain -- 4. Scotching the Brut: Politics, History and National Myth in Sixteenth-Century Britain -- 5. James Henrisoun and 'Great Britain': British Union and the Scottish Commonweal -- 6. Two Kingdoms or Three?: Ireland in Anglo-Scottish Relations in the Middle of the Sixteenth Century -- 7. The Price of Friendship: The 'Well Affected' and English Economic Clientage in Scotland before 1603 -- 8. The Early Covenanters and the Federal Union of Britain -- 9. The Solemn League and Covenant -- 10. Andrew Fletcher's Vision of Union -- 11. Politics, Politeness and the Anglicisation of early Eighteenth-Century Scottish Culture -- 12. The Scottish 'Jacobins', Scottish Nationalism and the British Union -- Index.

Counsel was a fundamental element of the theoretical framework and practical workings of medieval and early modern government. Good rule was to be ensured by governors hearing wise advisers. This process of counsel assumed particular importance in England and Scotland between the 14th and 17th centuries because of the close adherence to ideas of the common good, commonweal, and community in this period. Yet, major changes in who gave counsel and how it operated were emerging. This volume identifies both the patterns and the moments of change while also recognising continuities. It examines counsel set in the context of Anglo-Scottish warfare, unions of the two nations, the Reformations, and early colonising ventures, as well as in the contingent circumstances of individual reigns and long-term evolutions in the nature of government. Examining counsel as ubiquitous yet archivally elusive, this volume uses government records, pamphlets, plays, poetry, histories, and oaths to establish a new framework for understanding advice. As it shows, a widespread belief in good counsel masked fundamental tensions between accountability and secrecy, inclusive representation and political cohesiveness, and between upholding and restraining sovereign authority