Buti, Marco (contributor); Deroose, Servaas (contributor); … - European Commission - 2010
On 1 January 1999 eleven EU Member States adopted a new currency - the euro. The introduction of the euro was a … significance. Despite much criticism and predictions that it would quickly collapse, the first decade of the euro has been a … remarkable success. The euro area has now expanded to 16 members with a combined population of 326 million and contributes 16 per …