16 Member States of the European Union use the euro as their currency

introduction of the euro as a single currency .

ECB Statistical requirements of the European Central Bank in the field of general economic statistics August 2000 euro area GDP ) , since missing data for these countries seriously hamper the compilation of reliable euro area estimates .

Following the agreement of the Reform Treaty , the name of the single currency will appear in the primary law of the Union .

a scenario for the changeover to the single currency

Monetary union is possible only because of the substantial integration already achieved among European Union countries and sharing a single currency deepens that integration.

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Those who first imagined the single currency expected it to have profound consequences.

On a monetary level, the role played in the world by the ecu the future single currency of the union will correspond to the economic importance of the Community.

The currency of the Union shall be the euro.

A single currency to reflect our combined economic strength.

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A further impetus for pursuing a single currency and EMU was provided by the adoption of the Single European Act in 1986 .

The Parliament is prepared to go as far as its responsibilities will permit to meet the Community's commitments, but it is simply not prepared to give way on the question of principle.

If Greece does not accept the conditions imposed on it to maintain its membership in the single currency, it risks being thrown out of the European Union altogether.

EURO AREA The euro area encompasses the Member States of the European Union which have adopted the euro and in which a single monetary policy is conducted under the responsibility of the decision making bodies of the European Central Bank .

The euro is gradually changing the economies of the euro area .

Without a single market and a single currency, the Community has no future.

These arrangements shall ensure that the Union expresses a single position.

You are saying this to us when you should be saying it to the Council, which strengthened its executive powers still further in Asolo.

For precisely that reason, it may well be too early to write off the single currency.

The single currency that we have today can be seen as a logical step in complementing the Single Market .

Large portfolio investors don t put all of their funds in a single currency.

With regard to the suggestions about the disclosure of information on the voting behaviour and individual views of the members of the Governing Council , it should be borne in mind that the ECB operates a The euro cash changeover 1 January 2002 saw the single currency become a tangible reality .

Firstly , the introduction of the single currency is a long term project .

Andorra , Montenegro and Kosovo likewise use the euro , but without a formal arrangement .

Mr Herman, have you forgotten the riots in Casablanca ? The riots in Tunisia ?

Slovenia has thus become the 13th EU Member State to adopt the single currency and is the first of the new Member States to join Economic and Monetary Union in Europe .

General government as defined in the European System of Accounts 1995 ( ESA 95 ) , consists of central , state and local government and social security funds .

The ministers discuss issues connected with their shared responsibilities in respect of the single currency .

B. Updating of the terminology used in the Treaties with respect to the single currency 3 .

As long as this is the case , the euro cannot be regarded as a fully implemented single currency .

The ECB is the central bank for Europe 's single currency , the euro .

I vote against racism, and against the wrongful use of power by one people over another I vote in favour of the selfdetermination of all people, and I vote against the lies built up by the parties.

The idea of an economic and monetary union is revived in the Single European Act ( SEA ) .

whether a majority of the Member States fulfil the necessary conditions for the adoption of a single currency ,

The Euro Party on 18 January 2002 celebrating the introduction of the single currency

It laid the foundations for the introduction of the single currency nearly a decade later .

EURO AREA ENLARGEMENT The euro started out as the single currency of 11 Member States .

A second feature of the international role of the euro is that it is partly driven by the euro area itself .

The number of EU Member States that use the single European currency has now increased to 15 .

Euro banknotes are expressions of the same and single currency , and subject to a single legal regime .

It seeks to convey the idea of the single currency and , by extension , Economic and Monetary Union ( EMU ) being the latest step in Europe 's long history of trade and economic integration .

The final question is what such a eurozone banking union would mean for the single financial market, and especially for EU countries that are outside the single currency.