Single currency

(Photo: EU Commission)
The EU has not only a common currency supplementing the national currencies, but a single currency. Consequently, the Euro has replaced the former national currencies within the, so-called, Eurozone. Circulation of national currencies is forbidden.

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The European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany, is responsible for the single currency.

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See also Common currency, Euroland, Economic and Monetary Union and Optimum currency area.

http://europa.eu.int/euro/entry.html