About the euro
The euro is the single currency of 13 EU countries, also called the euro area.
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21/12/2007 - Other decisions:
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21/12/2007 - Press release:
Publication of the European Court of Auditors’ report on the operational efficiency of the ECB’s management for the financial year 2005 and the ECB’s reply,
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19/12/2007 - Speech:
Jean-Claude Trichet:
Hearing at the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the European Parliament,
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18/12/2007 - Press release:
Launch of a public consultation on TARGET2-Securities,
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21/12/2007 - Statistical press release:
Euro area balance of payments (October 2007),
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19/12/2007 - Statistical press release:
Euro area securities issues statistics,
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20/12/2007 - Working paper no. 846:
Information combination and forecast (st)ability vidence from vintages of time-series data , 1786 kb, en
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20/12/2007 - Working paper no. 845:
Run-prone banking and asset markets , 938 kb, en
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20/12/2007 - Working paper no. 844:
Business cycle synchronization and insurance mechanisms in the EU , 951 kb, en
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20/12/2007 - Working paper no. 842:
Saving behaviour and global imbalances: the role of emerging market economies , 992 kb, en
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19/12/2007 - Occasional paper no. 77:
Oil market structure, network effects and the choice of currency for oil invoicing , 1014 kb, en
19/12/2007 - ECB Law: Opinion on the legal framework in preparation for the adoption of the euro (CON/2007/43)
Slovakia, 19.12.2007, 49 kb, en . sk
- 19/12/2007 - ECB Law: Decision of the ECB of 22 November 2007 amending Decision ECB/2001/16 on the allocation of monetary income of the national central banks of participating Member States from the financial year 2002 (ECB/2007/15)
OJ L 333, 19.12.2007, p. 86, 65 kb, bg . cs . da . de . el . en . es . et . fi . fr . hu . it . lt . lv . mt . nl . pl . pt . ro . sk . sl . sv
- 15/12/2007 - ECB Law: Recommendation of the ECB of 29 November 2007 to the Council of the European Union on the external auditors of the Central Bank of Malta (ECB/2007/17)
OJ C 304, 15.12.2007, p. 1, 73 kb, bg . cs . da . de . el . en . es . et . fi . fr . hu . it . lt . lv . mt . nl . pl . pt . ro . sk . sl . sv
- 15/12/2007 - ECB Law: Regulation (EC) No 1489/2007 of the ECB of 29 November 2007 amending Regulation (EC) No 2423/2001 (ECB/2001/13) concerning the consolidated balance sheet of the monetary financial institutions sector (ECB/2007/18)
OJ L 330, 15.12.2007, p. 20, 95 kb, bg . cs . da . de . el . en . es . et . fi . fr . hu . it . lt . lv . mt . nl . pl . pt . ro . sk . sl . sv
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