Values of the European Union

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Historically, the EU countries had their own specific currency with the disadvantages of exchange operations. The aim is to ensure that the euro is the only official currency of the European Union.
There are currently nine different currencies in the Member States. The most important is the euro, used both by the eurozone countries and by the European institutions. Of the 27 EU member states, 20 use the euro, 6 are obliged to adopt it, while Denmark has legal exemptions or de facto permits that make its currency independent.

Euro
The euro is the official common currency of the European Union (as a whole) and the single currency for twenty Member States currently joining the EMU (Economic and Monetary Union) is the euro, namely Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain. The complex of these countries, informally called Eurozone, has more than 346 million inhabitants; taking into account also those third countries using euro-related currencies, the single currency directly affects more than 480 million people worldwide.

Current values

Historical values

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European symbols
Monetary union