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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9809

23 December 2008
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/economy
1999-2009, ten years of euro

Brussels, 22/12/2008 (Agence Europe) -On 1 January next year, the euro will celebrate its 10th anniversary. The single currency, which was created in 1999 by 11 Member States (Germany, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Portugal) will then be shared by 16 Member States of the EU. With Slovakia's entry into the euro zone on the same date, 328.6 million European citizens will be using euro notes and coins. In a press release published on...

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