The first notes and coins were issued with great fanfare on January 1, 2002, when the euro became legal tender for all transactions in Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece ...

The European Central Bank is redesigning euro banknotes to feature figures like Leonardo da Vinci, Maria Callas, and Ludwig ...

The euro is the most tangible element of European integration. Launched in 1999 as an account currency, the euro started ...

The Council currently meets fortnightly. Euro notes and coins to come into circulation as legal tender alongside national currencies. Withdrawal of national notes and coins will begin. Public ...

Millions of Europeans are looking forward to a date in exactly six months time -January 1, 2002 - with excitement because notes and coins of the single European currency will then come into ...

The European Central Bank is redesigning euro banknotes, focusing on cultural figures like Beethoven or natural motifs such ...

It lagged below the dollar in the years following the currency's launch in 1999, but the last time it traded below the dollar was December 2002 - less than a year after Euro notes and coins were ...

The selection of Maria Callas is "a great honour for our country and a source of pride for all Greeks as members of the ...