1. Grob-Fitzgibbon (2016), p. 271.
2. On EMU, see O’Rourke and Taylor (2013), freely available at https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.27.3.167, as well as numerous blog posts and opinion columns available at http://www.irisheconomy.ie/index.php/author/korourke/. On the democratic deficit, see O’Rourke (2015), freely available at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/criq.12197.