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Euro
see alsoeuroin various languages
Euro banknotes1 euro coin
ISO 4217
CodeEUR (numeric:978)
Subunit0.01
Unit
Uniteuro
PluralVaries, seelanguage and the euro
Symbol€‎
NicknameThe single currency[a]
Denominations
Subunit
 1⁄100euro cent
(Name varies by language)
Plural
 euro cent(Varies by language)
Symbol
 euro centc
Banknotes
 Freq. used€5,€10,€20,€50,€100,€200[2]
 Rarely used€500[2]
Coins
 Freq. used1c,2c,5c,10c,20c,50c,€1,€2
 Rarely used1c,2c(Belgium, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Slovakia[3][4])
Demographics
Date of introduction1 January 1999;25 years ago(1999-01-01)
ReplacedEuropean Currency Unit
User(s)primary:§ members of Eurozone(20),
also:§ other users
Issuance
Central bankEuropean Central Bank
 Websitewww.ecb.europa.eu
Printersee§ Banknote printing
MintList of mints
Valuation
Inflation2.5% (June 2024)[5]
 Sourceec.europa.eu
 MethodHICP
Pegged bysee§ Pegged currencies
EuroMonetary policy
Euro Zone inflation year/year
M3 money supply increases
Marginal Lending Facility
Main Refinancing Operations
Deposit Facility Rate
Euribor

Theeuro(symbol:€;currency code:EUR) is the officialcurrencyof 20 of the 27member statesof theEuropean Union.This group of states is officially known as the euro area or, more commonly, theeurozone.The euro is divided into 100euro cents.[6][7]

The currency is also used officially by theinstitutions of the European Union,byfour European microstatesthat are not EU members,[7]theBritish Overseas TerritoryofAkrotiri and Dhekelia,as well as unilaterally byMontenegroandKosovo.Outside Europe, a number ofspecial territories of EU membersalso use the euro as their currency. Additionally, over 200 million people worldwide usecurrencies pegged to the euro.

The euro is the second-largestreserve currencyas well as the second-most traded currency in the world after theUnited States dollar.[8][9][10][11][12]As of December 2019,with more than €1.3 trillion in circulation, the euro has one of the highest combined values of banknotes and coins in circulation in the world.[13][14]

The nameeurowas officially adopted on 16 December 1995 inMadrid.[15]The euro was introduced to world financial markets as anaccounting currencyon 1 January 1999, replacing the formerEuropean Currency Unit(ECU) at a ratio of 1:1 (US$1.1743 at the time). Physical euro coins and banknotes entered into circulation on 1 January 2002, making it the day-to-day operating currency of its original members, and by March 2002 it had completely replaced the former currencies.[16]

Between December 1999 and December 2002, the euro traded below the US dollar, but has since traded near parity with or above the US dollar, peaking at US$1.60 on 18 July 2008 and since then returning near to its original issue rate. On 13 July 2022, the two currencies hit parity for the first time in nearly two decades due in part to the2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[17]Then, in September 2022, the US dollar again had a face value higher than the Euro, at around US dollar 0.95 per euro.[18][19]

Characteristics[edit]

Administration[edit]

TheEuropean Central Bank seatinFrankfurt am Main
Main articles:European Central Bank,Maastricht Treaty,andEurogroup

The euro is managed and administered by theEuropean Central Bank(ECB,Frankfurt am Main) and theEurosystem,composed of thecentral banksof the eurozone countries. As an independent central bank, the ECB has sole authority to setmonetary policy.The Eurosystem participates in the printing, minting and distribution ofeuro banknotesandcoinsin all member states, and the operation of the eurozone payment systems.

The 1992Maastricht Treatyobliges most EU member states to adopt the euro upon meeting certain monetary and budgetaryconvergence criteria,although not all participating states have done so.Denmarkhas negotiated exemptions,[20]while Sweden (which joined the EU in 1995, after the Maastricht Treaty was signed) turned down the euro in a2003 non-binding referendum,and has circumvented the obligation to adopt the euro by not meeting the monetary and budgetary requirements. All nations that have joined the EU since 1993 have pledged to adopt the euro in due course. The Maastricht Treaty was amended by the 2001Treaty of Nice,[21]which closed the gaps and loopholes in the Maastricht and Rome Treaties.

Countries that use the euro[edit]

Further information:Euro § Direct and indirect usage

Eurozone members[edit]

Main article:Eurozone

The 20 participating members are

Special territories of members of the European Economic Area[edit]

EU Outermost Regions:

Overseas Territories:

Special Autonomous Territories:

Other users[edit]

Microstates with a monetary agreement:

British Overseas Territory:

Unilateral adopters:

EU members not using the euro[edit]

Main article:Enlargement of the eurozone

Obliged to adopt the euro[edit]

See also:Bulgaria and the euro,Czech Republic and the euro,Hungary and the euro,Poland and the euro,Romania and the euro,andSweden and the euro

The followingEUmember states committed themselves in their respectiveTreaty of Accessionto adopt the euro. However they do not have a deadline to do so and can delay the process by deliberately not complying with the convergence criteria (such as by not meeting the convergence criteria to join ERM II). Bulgaria and Romania are actively working to adopt the euro, while the remaining states do not have a migration plan in progress.

Opt-out[edit]

See also:Denmark and the euro

The government of Denmark negotiated anopt-outto retain its currency.

Coins and banknotes[edit]

Coins[edit]

Main article:Euro coins

The euro is divided into 100cents(also referred to aseuro cents,especially when distinguishing them from other currencies, and referred to as such on the common side of all cent coins). In Community legislative acts the plural forms ofeuroandcentare spelled without thes,notwithstanding normal English usage.[31][32]Otherwise, normal English plurals are used,[33]with manylocal variationssuch ascentimein France.

All circulating coins have acommon sideshowing the denomination or value, and a map in the background. Due to thelinguistic plurality in the European Union,the Latin Alpha bet version ofeurois used (as opposed to the less common Greek or Cyrillic) andArabic numerals(other text is used on national sides in national languages, but other text on the common side is avoided). For the denominations except the 1-, 2- and 5-cent coins, the map only showed the 15 member states of the union as of 2002. Beginning in 2007 or 2008 (depending on the country), the old map was replaced by a map of Europe also showing countries outside theEU.[34]The 1-, 2- and 5-cent coins, however, keep their old design, showing a geographical map of Europe with theEUmember states as of 2002, raised somewhat above the rest of the map. All common sides were designed byLuc Luycx.The coins also have anational sideshowing an image specifically chosen by the country that issued the coin. Euro coins from any member state may be freely used in any nation that has adopted the euro.

The coins are issued in denominations of€2,€1,50c,20c,10c,5c,2c,and1c.To avoid the use of the two smallest coins, some cash transactions are rounded to the nearest five cents in the Netherlands and Ireland[35][36](by voluntary agreement) and in Finland and Italy (by law).[37]This practice is discouraged by the commission, as is the practice of certain shops of refusing to accept high-value euro notes.[38]

Commemorative coinswith €2 face value have been issued with changes to the design of the national side of the coin. These include both commonly issued coins, such as the €2 commemorative coin for the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome, and nationally issued coins, such as the coin to commemorate the2004 Summer Olympicsissued by Greece. These coins are legal tender throughout the eurozone. Collector coins with various other denominations have been issued as well, but these are not intended for general circulation, and they are legal tender only in the member state that issued them.[39]

Coin minting[edit]

A number of institutions are authorised to mint euro coins:

Banknotes[edit]

Main article:Euro banknotes
Euro coinsand banknotes of various denominations

The design for theeuro banknoteshas common designs on both sides. The design was created by the Austrian designerRobert Kalina.[40]Notes are issued in€500,€200,€100,€50,€20,€10,and€5.Each banknote has its own colour and is dedicated to an artistic period of European architecture. The front of the note features windows or gateways while the back has bridges, symbolising links between states in the union and with the future. While the designs are supposed to be devoid of any identifiable characteristics, the initial designs by Robert Kalina were of specific bridges, including theRialtoand thePont de Neuilly,and were subsequently rendered more generic; the final designs still bear very close similarities to their specific prototypes; thus they are not truly generic. The monuments looked similar enough to different national monuments to please everyone.[41]

The Europa series, or second series, consists of six denominations and no longer includes the €500 with issuance discontinued as of 27 April 2019.[42]However, both the first and the second series of euro banknotes, including the €500, remain legal tender throughout the euro area.[42]

In December 2021, the ECB announced its plans to redesign euro banknotes by 2024. A theme advisory group, made up of one member from each euro area country, was selected to submit theme proposals to the ECB. The proposals will be voted on by the public; a design competition will also be held.[43]

Issuing modalities for banknotes[edit]

Since 1 January 2002, the national central banks (NCBs) and theECBhave issued euro banknotes on a joint basis.[44]Eurosystem NCBs are required to accept euro banknotes put into circulation by other Eurosystem members and these banknotes are not repatriated. The ECB issues 8% of the total value of banknotes issued by the Eurosystem.[44]In practice, the ECB's banknotes are put into circulation by the NCBs, thereby incurring matching liabilities vis-à-vis the ECB. These liabilities carry interest at the main refinancing rate of the ECB. The other 92% of euro banknotes are issued by the NCBs in proportion to their respective shares of the ECB capital key,[44]calculated using national share of European Union (EU) population and national share of EU GDP, equally weighted.[45]

Banknote printing[edit]

Member states are authorised to print or to commission bank note printing. As of November 2022,these are the printers:

Payments clearing, electronic funds transfer[edit]

Main article:Single Euro Payments Area

Capital within the EU may be transferred in any amount from one state to another. All intra-Union transfers in euro are treated as domestic transactions and bear the corresponding domestic transfer costs.[46]This includes all member states of the EU, even those outside the eurozone providing the transactions are carried out in euro.[47]Credit/debit card charging and ATM withdrawals within the eurozone are also treated as domestic transactions; however paper-based payment orders, like cheques, have not been standardised so these are still domestic-based. The ECB has also set up aclearing system,TARGET,for large euro transactions.[48]

History[edit]

Main article:History of the euro

Introduction[edit]

Historical currencies of the European Union
Currency Code Rate[49] Fixed on Yielded
Austrian schilling ATS 13.7603 31 December 1998 1 January 1999
Belgian franc BEF 40.3399 31 December 1998 1 January 1999
Dutch guilder NLG 2.20371 31 December 1998 1 January 1999
Finnish markka FIM 5.94573 31 December 1998 1 January 1999
French franc FRF 6.55957 31 December 1998 1 January 1999
German mark DEM 1.95583 31 December 1998 1 January 1999
Irish pound IEP 0.787564 31 December 1998 1 January 1999
Italian lira ITL 1,936.27 31 December 1998 1 January 1999
Luxembourg franc LUF 40.3399 31 December 1998 1 January 1999
Portuguese escudo PTE 200.482 31 December 1998 1 January 1999
Spanish peseta ESP 166.386 31 December 1998 1 January 1999
Greek drachma GRD 340.750 19 June 2000 1 January 2001
Slovenian tolar SIT 239.640 11 July 2006 1 January 2007
Cypriot pound CYP 0.585274 10 July 2007 1 January 2008
Maltese lira MTL 0.429300 10 July 2007 1 January 2008
Slovak koruna SKK 30.1260 8 July 2008 1 January 2009
Estonian kroon EEK 15.6466 13 July 2010 1 January 2011
Latvian lats LVL 0.702804 9 July 2013 1 January 2014
Lithuanian litas LTL 3.45280 23 July 2014 1 January 2015
Croatian kuna HRK 7.53450 12 July 2022 1 January 2023

The euro was established by the provisions in the 1992Maastricht Treaty.To participate in the currency, member states are meant to meetstrict criteria,such as a budgetdeficitof less than 3% of their GDP, a debt ratio of less than 60% of GDP (both of which were ultimately widely flouted after introduction), low inflation, andinterestrates close to the EU average. In the Maastricht Treaty, the United Kingdom and Denmark were granted exemptions per their request from moving to the stage of monetary union which resulted in the introduction of the euro (see alsoUnited Kingdom and the euro).

The name "euro" was officially adopted inMadridon 16 December 1995.[15]BelgianEsperantistGermain Pirlot,a former teacher of French and history, is credited with naming the new currency by sending a letter to thenPresident of the European Commission,Jacques Santer,suggesting the name "euro" on 4 August 1995.[50]

Due to differences in national conventions forroundingand significant digits, all conversion between the national currencies had to be carried out using the process oftriangulationvia the euro. Thedefinitivevalues of one euro in terms of theexchange ratesat which the currency entered the euro are shown in the table.

The rates were determined by theCouncil of the European Union,[f]based on a recommendation from the European Commission based on the market rates on 31 December 1998. They were set so that oneEuropean Currency Unit(ECU) would equal one euro. The European Currency Unit was an accounting unit used by the EU, based on the currencies of the member states; it was not a currency in its own right. They could not be set earlier, because the ECU depended on the closing exchange rate of the non-euro currencies (principallypound sterling) that day.

The procedure used to fix the conversion rate between theGreek drachmaand the euro was different since the euro by then was already two years old. While the conversion rates for the initial eleven currencies were determined only hours before the euro was introduced, the conversion rate for the Greek drachma was fixed several months beforehand.[g]

The currency was introduced in non-physical form (traveller's cheques,electronic transfers, banking, etc.) at midnight on 1 January 1999, when the national currencies of participating countries (the eurozone) ceased to exist independently. Their exchange rates were locked at fixed rates against each other. The euro thus became the successor to theEuropean Currency Unit(ECU). The notes and coins for the old currencies, however, continued to be used aslegal tenderuntil new euro notes and coins were introduced on 1 January 2002.

The changeover period during which the former currencies' notes and coins were exchanged for those of the euro lasted about two months, until 28 February 2002. The official date on which the national currencies ceased to be legal tender varied from member state to member state. The earliest date was in Germany, where themarkofficially ceased to be legal tender on 31 December 2001, though the exchange period lasted for two months more. Even after the old currencies ceased to be legal tender, they continued to be accepted by national central banks for periods ranging from several years to indefinitely (the latter for Austria, Germany, Ireland, Estonia and Latvia in banknotes and coins, and for Belgium, Luxembourg, Slovenia and Slovakia in banknotes only). The earliest coins to become non-convertible were the Portugueseescudos,which ceased to have monetary value after 31 December 2002, although banknotes remained exchangeable until 2022.

Currency sign[edit]

The euro sign; logotype and handwritten
Main article:Euro sign

A specialeuro currency sign(€) was designed after a public survey had narrowed ten of the original thirty proposals down to two. ThePresident of the European Commissionat the time (Jacques Santer) and the European Commissioner with responsibility for the euro (Yves-Thibault de Silguy) then chose the winning design.[51]

Regarding the symbol, theEuropean Commissionstated on behalf of theEuropean Union:

The symbol € is based on the Greek letter epsilon (Є), with the first letter in the word "Europe" and with 2 parallel lines signifying stability.

— Directorate-General for Communication[52]

The European Commission also specified a euro logo with exact proportions.[52]Placement of the currency sign relative to the numeric amount varies from state to state, but for texts in English published by EU institutions, the symbol (or theISO-standard "EUR" ) should precede the amount.[53]

Eurozone crisis[edit]

European 10 year bonds, before theGreat Recession in Europebonds floated together in parity
Greece10 year bond
Portugal10 year bond
Ireland10 year bond
Spain10 year bond
Italy10 year bond
France10 year bond
Germany10 year bond
Main articles:European debt crisisandGreek government-debt crisis
See also:2008–2011 Icelandic financial crisis
Budget deficit of the eurozone compared to the United States and the United Kingdom.

Following the U.S. financial crisis in 2008, fears of asovereign debt crisisdeveloped in 2009 among investors concerning some European states, with the situation becoming particularly tense inearly 2010.[54][55]Greecewas most acutely affected, but fellow Eurozone membersCyprus,Ireland,Italy,Portugal,andSpainwere also significantly affected.[56][57]All these countries used EU funds except Italy, which is a major donor to the EFSF.[58]To be included in the eurozone, countries had to fulfil certainconvergence criteria,but the meaningfulness of such criteria was diminished by the fact it was not enforced with the same level of strictness among countries.[59]

According to theEconomist Intelligence Unitin 2011, "[I]f the [euro area] is treated as a single entity, its [economic and fiscal] position looks no worse and in some respects, rather better than that of the US or the UK" and the budget deficit for the euro area as a whole is much lower and the euro area's government debt/GDP ratio of 86% in 2010 was about the same level as that of the United States. "Moreover", they write, "private-sector indebtedness across the euro area as a whole is markedly lower than in the highly leveragedAnglo-Saxoneconomies ". The authors conclude that the crisis" is as much political as economic "and the result of the fact that the euro area lacks the support of" institutionalparaphernalia(and mutual bonds of solidarity) of a state ".[60]

The crisis continued with S&P downgrading the credit rating of nine euro-area countries, including France, then downgrading the entireEuropean Financial Stability Facility(EFSF) fund.[61]

A historical parallel – to 1931 when Germany was burdened with debt, unemployment and austerity while France and the United States were relatively strong creditors –gained attentionin summer 2012[62]even as Germany received adebt-ratingwarning of its own.[63][64]

Direct and indirect usage[edit]

Further information:Eurozone,International status and usage of the euro,andEnlargement of the eurozone

Agreed direct usage with minting rights[edit]

The euro is the sole currency of 20EU member states:Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain. These countries constitute the "eurozone",some 347 million people in total as of 2023.[65]According tobilateral agreements with the EU,the euro has also been designated as the sole and official currency in a further fourEuropean microstatesawarded minting rights (Andorra, Monaco, San Marino and the Vatican City). All but one (Denmark) current, and any potential future EU members, areobliged to adopt the eurowhen economic conditions permit.

Agreed direct usage without minting rights[edit]

The euro is also the sole currency in threeoverseas territories of Francethat are not themselves part of the EU, namelySaint Barthélemy,Saint Pierre and Miquelon,and theFrench Southern and Antarctic Lands,as well as in theBritish Overseas TerritoryofAkrotiri and Dhekelia.[66]

Unilateral direct usage[edit]

The euro has been adopted unilaterally as the sole currency of Montenegro and Kosovo. It has also been used as a foreign trading currency in Cuba since 1998,[67]Syria since 2006,[68]and Venezuela since 2018.[69]In 2009, Zimbabwe abandoned itslocal currencyand introduced major global convertible currencies instead, including the euro and the United States dollar. The direct usage of the euro outside of the official framework of the EU affects nearly 3 million people.[70]

Currencies pegged to the euro[edit]

Main article:International status and usage of the euro
Worldwide use of the euro and the US dollar:
Eurozone
External adopters of the euro
Currencies pegged to the euro
Currencies pegged to the euro within narrow band
United States
External adopters of the US dollar
Currencies pegged to the US dollar
Currencies pegged to the US dollar within narrow band
Note: TheBelarusian roubleis pegged to the euro,Russian roubleandUS dollarin acurrency basket.

Outside the eurozone, two EU member states have currencies that arepegged to the euro,which is a precondition to joining the eurozone. TheDanish kroneandBulgarian levare pegged due to their participation in theERM II.

Additionally, a total of 21 countries and territories that do not belong to the EU have currencies that are directlypeggedto the euro including 14 countries in mainland Africa (CFA franc), two African island countries (Comorian francandCape Verdean escudo), three French Pacific territories (CFP franc) and two Balkan countries, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark) and North Macedonia (Macedonian denar).[71]On 1 January 2010, thedobraofSão Tomé and Príncipewas officially linked with the euro.[72]Additionally, theMoroccan dirhamis tied to a basket of currencies, including the euro and the US dollar, with the euro given the highest weighting.

These countries generally had previously implemented a currency peg to one of the major European currencies (e.g. theFrench franc,Deutsche MarkorPortuguese escudo), and when these currencies were replaced by the euro their currencies became pegged to the euro. Pegging a country's currency to a major currency is regarded as a safety measure, especially for currencies of areas with weak economies, as the euro is seen as a stable currency, prevents runaway inflation, and encourages foreign investment due to its stability.

In total, as of 2013,182 million people in Africa use a currency pegged to the euro, 27 million people outside the eurozone in Europe, and another 545,000 people on Pacific islands.[65]

Since 2005, stamps issued by theSovereign Military Order of Maltahave been denominated in euros, although the Order's official currency remains theMaltese scudo.[73]The Maltese scudo itself is pegged to the euro and is only recognised as legal tender within the Order.

The currency of a number of states ispeggedto the euro. These states are:

North America

Europe

Oceania

Africa

Use as reserve currency[edit]

Since its introduction in 1999, the euro has been the second most widely held internationalreserve currencyafter the U.S. dollar. The share of the euro as a reserve currency increased from 18% in 1999 to 27% in 2008. Over this period, the share held in U.S. dollar fell from 71% to 64% and that held in RMB fell from 6.4% to 3.3%. The euro inherited and built on the status of theDeutsche Markas the second most important reserve currency. The euro remains underweight as a reserve currency in advanced economies while overweight in emerging and developing economies: according to theInternational Monetary Fund[75]the total of euro held as a reserve in the world at the end of 2008 was equal to $1.1 trillion or €850 billion, with a share of 22% of all currency reserves in advanced economies, but a total of 31% of all currency reserves in emerging and developing economies.

The possibility of the euro becoming the first international reserve currency has been debated among economists.[76]FormerFederal ReserveChairmanAlan Greenspangave his opinion in September 2007 that it was "absolutely conceivable that the euro will replace the US dollar as reserve currency, or will be traded as an equally important reserve currency".[77]In contrast to Greenspan's 2007 assessment, the euro's increase in the share of the worldwide currency reserve basket has slowed considerably since 2007 and since the beginning of the worldwidecredit crunchrelated recession andEuropean sovereign-debt crisis.[75]

Economics[edit]

Optimal currency area[edit]

Further information:Optimum currency area

In economics, an optimum currency area, or region (OCA or OCR), is a geographical region in which it would maximise economic efficiency to have the entire region share a single currency. There are two models, both proposed byRobert Mundell:thestationary expectations modeland theinternational risk sharing model.Mundell himself advocates the international risk sharing model and thus concludes in favour of the euro.[78]However, even before the creation of the single currency, there were concerns over diverging economies. Before thelate-2000s recessionit was considered unlikely that a state would leave the euro or the whole zone would collapse.[79]However theGreek government-debt crisisled to formerBritish Foreign SecretaryJack Strawclaiming the eurozone could not last in its current form.[80]Part of the problem seems to be the rules that were created when the euro was set up. John Lanchester, writing forThe New Yorker,explains it:

The guiding principle of the currency, which opened for business in 1999, were supposed to be a set of rules to limit a country's annual deficit to three per cent of gross domestic product, and the total accumulated debt to sixty per cent of G.D.P. It was a nice idea, but by 2004 the two biggest economies in the euro zone, Germany and France, had broken the rules for three years in a row.[81]

Increasing business cycle divergence across the Eurozone over the last decades implies a decreasing Optimum Currency Area.[82]

Transaction costs and risks[edit]

The most obvious benefit of adopting a single currency is to remove the cost of exchanging currency, theoretically allowing businesses and individuals to consummate previously unprofitable trades. For consumers, banks in the eurozone must charge the same for intra-member cross-border transactions as purely domestic transactions for electronic payments (e.g.,credit cards,debit cardsandcash machinewithdrawals).

Financial markets on the continent are expected to be far moreliquidand flexible than they were in the past. The reduction in cross-border transaction costs will allow larger banking firms to provide a wider array of banking services that can compete across and beyond the eurozone. However, although transaction costs were reduced, some studies have shown thatrisk aversionhas increased during the last 40 years in the Eurozone.[83]

Price parity[edit]

Another effect of the common European currency is that differences in prices—in particular in price levels—should decrease because of thelaw of one price.Differences in prices can triggerarbitrage,i.e.,speculativetrade in acommodityacross borders purely to exploit the price differential. Therefore, prices on commonly traded goods are likely to converge, causing inflation in some regions and deflation in others during the transition. Some evidence of this has been observed in specific eurozone markets.[84]

Macroeconomic stability[edit]

Before the introduction of the euro, some countries had successfully contained inflation, which was then seen as a major economic problem, by establishing largely independent central banks. One such bank was theBundesbankin Germany; the European Central Bank was modelled on the Bundesbank.[85]

The euro has come under criticism due to its regulation, lack of flexibility and rigidity towards sharing member states on issues such as nominal interest rates.[86] Many national and corporatebondsdenominated in euro are significantly more liquid and have lower interest rates than was historically the case when denominated in national currencies. While increased liquidity may lower thenominal interest rateon the bond, denominating the bond in a currency with low levels of inflation arguably plays a much larger role. A credible commitment to low levels of inflation and a stable debt reduces the risk that the value of the debt will be eroded by higher levels of inflation or default in the future, allowing debt to be issued at a lower nominal interest rate.

There is also a cost in structurally keeping inflation lower than in the United States, United Kingdom, and China. The result is that seen from those countries, the euro has become expensive, making European products increasingly expensive for its largest importers; hence export from the eurozone becomes more difficult.

In general, those in Europe who own large amounts of euro are served by high stability and low inflation.

Amonetary unionmeans states in that union lose the main mechanism of recovery of their internationalcompetitivenessby weakening (depreciating) their currency. Whenwagesbecome too high compared toproductivityin the exports sector, then these exports become more expensive and they are crowded out from the market within a country and abroad. This drives the fall of employment and output in the exports sector and fall oftradeandcurrent accountbalances. Fall of output and employment in the tradable goods sector may be offset by the growth of non-exports sectors, especially inconstructionandservices.Increased purchases abroad and negative current account balances can be financed without a problem as long ascreditis cheap.[87]The need to finance trade deficit weakens currency, making exports automatically more attractive in a country and abroad. A state in a monetary union cannot use weakening of currency to recover its international competitiveness. To achieve this a state has to reduce prices, including wages (deflation). This could result in highunemploymentand lower incomes as it was during theEuropean sovereign-debt crisis.[88]

Trade[edit]

The euro increased price transparency and stimulated cross-border trade.[89]A 2009 consensus from the studies of the introduction of the euro concluded that it has increased trade within the eurozone by 5% to 10%,[90]and ameta-analysisof all available studies on the effect of introduction of the euro on increased trade suggests that the prevalence of positive estimates is caused bypublication biasand that the underlying effect may be negligible.[91]Although a more recent meta-analysis shows that publication bias decreases over time and that there are positive trade effects from the introduction of the euro, as long as results from before 2010 are taken into account. This may be because of the inclusion of theFinancial crisis of 2007–2008and ongoing integration within the EU.[92]Furthermore, older studies based on certain methods of analysis of main trends reflecting general cohesion policies in Europe that started before, and continue after implementing the common currency find no effect on trade.[93][94]These results suggest that other policies aimed at European integration might be the source of observed increase in trade. According to Barry Eichengreen, studies disagree on the magnitude of the effect of the euro on trade, but they agree that it did have an effect.[89]

Investment[edit]

Physical investment seems to have increased by 5% in the eurozone due to the introduction.[95]Regarding foreign direct investment, a study found that the intra-eurozone FDI stocks have increased by about 20% during the first four years of the EMU.[96]Concerning the effect on corporate investment, there is evidence that the introduction of the euro has resulted in an increase in investment rates and that it has made it easier for firms to access financing in Europe. The euro has most specifically stimulated investment in companies that come from countries that previously had weak currencies. A study found that the introduction of the euro accounts for 22% of the investment rate after 1998 in countries that previously had a weak currency.[97]

Inflation[edit]

Euro Zone inflation

The introduction of the euro has led to extensive discussion about its possible effect on inflation. In the short term, there was a widespread impression in the population of the eurozone that the introduction of the euro had led to an increase in prices, but this impression was not confirmed by general indices of inflation and other studies.[98][99]A study of this paradox found that this was due to an asymmetric effect of the introduction of the euro on prices: while it had no effect on most goods, it had an effect on cheap goods which have seen their price round up after the introduction of the euro. The study found that consumers based their beliefs on inflation of those cheap goods which are frequently purchased.[100]It has also been suggested that the jump in small prices may be because prior to the introduction, retailers made fewer upward adjustments and waited for the introduction of the euro to do so.[101]Based on theintroduction of the euro as the official currency in Croatiain 2023, the ECB argues that inflation due to a change of currency is a one-time effect of limited impact.[102]

Exchange rate risk[edit]

One of the advantages of the adoption of a common currency is the reduction of the risk associated with changes in currency exchange rates.[89]It has been found that the introduction of the euro created "significant reductions in market risk exposures for nonfinancial firms both in and outside Europe".[103]These reductions in market risk "were concentrated in firms domiciled in the eurozone and in non-euro firms with a high fraction of foreign sales or assets in Europe".

Financial integration[edit]

The introduction of the euro increased European financial integration, which helped stimulate growth of a Europeansecurities market(bond markets are characterized byeconomies of scaledynamics).[89]According to a study on this question, it has "significantly reshaped the European financial system, especially with respect to the securities markets [...] However, the real and policy barriers to integration in the retail and corporate banking sectors remain significant, even if the wholesale end of banking has been largely integrated."[104]Specifically, the euro has significantly decreased the cost of trade in bonds, equity, and banking assets within the eurozone.[105]On a global level, there is evidence that the introduction of the euro has led to an integration in terms of investment in bond portfolios, with eurozone countries lending and borrowing more between each other than with other countries.[106]Financial integration made it cheaper for European companies to borrow.[89]Banks, firms and households could also invest more easily outside of their own country, thus creating greater international risk-sharing.[89]

Effect on interest rates[edit]

Secondary market yields of government bonds with maturities of close to 10 years

As of January 2014, and since the introduction of the euro, interest rates of most member countries (particularly those with a weak currency) have decreased. Some of these countries had the most serious sovereign financing problems.

The effect of declining interest rates, combined with excess liquidity continually provided by the ECB, made it easier for banks within the countries in which interest rates fell the most, and their linked sovereigns, to borrow significant amounts (above the 3% of GDP budget deficit imposed on the eurozone initially) and significantly inflate their public and private debt levels.[107]Following thefinancial crisis of 2007–2008,governments in these countries found it necessary to bail out or nationalise their privately held banks to prevent systemic failure of the banking system when underlying hard or financial asset values were found to be grossly inflated and sometimes so nearly worthless there was no liquid market for them.[108]This further increased the already high levels of public debt to a level the markets began to consider unsustainable, via increasing government bond interest rates, producing the ongoing European sovereign-debt crisis.

Price convergence[edit]

The evidence on the convergence of prices in the eurozone with the introduction of the euro is mixed. Several studies failed to find any evidence of convergence following the introduction of the euro after a phase of convergence in the early 1990s.[109][110]Other studies have found evidence of price convergence,[111][112]in particular for cars.[113]A possible reason for the divergence between the different studies is that the processes of convergence may not have been linear, slowing down substantially between 2000 and 2003, and resurfacing after 2003 as suggested by a recent study (2009).[114]

Tourism[edit]

A study suggests that the introduction of the euro has had a positive effect on the amount of tourist travel within the EMU, with an increase of 6.5%.[115]

Exchange rates[edit]

Flexible exchange rates[edit]

The ECB targetsinterest ratesrather thanexchange ratesand in general, does not intervene on the foreign exchange rate markets. This is because of the implications of theMundell–Fleming model,which implies a central bank cannot (withoutcapital controls) maintain interest rate and exchange rate targets simultaneously, because increasing themoney supplyresults in adepreciationof the currency. In the years following theSingle European Act,the EU has liberalised its capital markets and, as the ECB hasinflation targetingas itsmonetary policy,the exchange-rate regime of the euro isfloating.

Against other major currencies[edit]

The euro is the second-most widely heldreserve currencyafter the U.S. dollar. After its introduction on 4 January 1999 its exchange rate against the other major currencies fell reaching its lowest exchange rates in 2000 (3 May vssterling,25 October vs theU.S. dollar,26 October vsJapanese yen). Afterwards it regained and its exchange rate reached its historical highest point in 2008 (15 July vs US dollar, 23 July vs Japanese yen, 29 December vs sterling). With the advent of the global financial crisis the euro initially fell, to regain later. Despite pressure due to theEuropean sovereign-debt crisis,the euro remained stable.[116]In November 2011 the euro's exchange rate index – measured against currencies of the bloc's major trading partners – was trading almost two percent higher on the year, approximately at the same level as it was before the crisis began in 2007.[117]In mid July 2022, the euro and the US dollar traded at par for a short period of time during an episode of dollarappreciation.[17]In July 2024, it recorded a new high against the Japanese yen during a long period ofdepreciationof the latter.[118][119][120]


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Political considerations[edit]

Besides the economic motivations to the introduction of the euro, its creation was also partly justified as a way to foster a closer sense of joint identity between European citizens. Statements about this goal were for instance made byWim Duisenberg,European Central Bank Governor, in 1998,[121]Laurent Fabius,French Finance Minister, in 2000,[122]andRomano Prodi,President of the European Commission, in 2002.[123]However, 15 years after the introduction of the euro, a study found no evidence that it has had any effect on a shared sense of European identity.[124]

Euroin various official EU languages[edit]

Main article:Language and the euro

The formal titles of the currency areeurofor the major unit andcentfor the minor (one-hundredth) unit and for official use in most eurozone languages; according to the ECB, all languages should use the same spelling for the nominative singular.[125]This may contradict normal rules for word formation in some languages.

Bulgaria has negotiated an exception;euroin the Bulgarian Cyrillic Alpha bet is spelledeвро(evro) and noteуро(euro) in all official documents.[126]In the Greek script the termευρώ(evró) is used; the Greek "cent" coins are denominated inλεπτό/ά(leptó/á). Official practice for English-language EU legislation is to use the words euro and cent as both singular and plural,[127]although the European Commission'sDirectorate-General for Translationstates that the plural formseurosandcentsshould be used in English.[128] The word 'euro' is pronounced differently according to pronunciation rules in the individual languages applied; in German[ˈɔʏʁo],in English/ˈjʊəroʊ/,in French[øʁo],etc.

In summary:

Language(s) Name IPA
In most EU languages euro Croatian:[ěuro],Czech:[ˈɛuro],Danish:[ˈœwʁo],Dutch:[ˈøːroː],Estonian:[ˈeu̯ro],Finnish:[ˈeu̯ro],French:[øʁo],Italian:[ˈɛwro],Polish:[ˈɛwrɔ],Portuguese:[ˈewɾɔ]or[ˈewɾu],Slovak:[ˈewrɔ],Spanish:[ˈewɾo]
Bulgarian евроevro Bulgarian:[ˈɛvro]
German Euro [ˈɔʏʁo]
Greek ευρώ [eˈvro]
Hungarian euró [ˈɛuroː]or[ˈɛu̯roː]
Latvian eurooreiro [ɛìro]
Lithuanian euras [ˈɛʊrɐs]
Maltese ewro [ˈɛwrɔ]
Slovene evro [ˈéːʋrɔ]

For local phonetics, cent, use of plural and amount formatting (€6,00 or 6.00 €), seeLanguage and the euro.

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^Official documents and legislation refer to the euro as "the single currency".[1]This term is sometimes adopted by the media. (Google hits for the phrase)
  2. ^Northern CyprususesTurkish lira.
  3. ^Including outermost regions ofFrench Guiana,Guadeloupe,Martinique,Mayotte,Réunion,Saint Barthélemy,Saint Martin,andSaint Pierre and Miquelon.
  4. ^Only the European part of the country is part of the European Union and uses the euro. TheCaribbean Netherlandsintroduced theUnited States dollarin 2011.Curaçao,Sint MaartenandArubahave their own currencies, which are pegged to the dollar.
  5. ^SeeMontenegro and the euro.
  6. ^by means of Council Regulation 2866/98 (EC) of 31 December 1998.
  7. ^by Council Regulation 1478/2000 (EC) of 19 June 2000.

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