One euro stabilized and in good shape despite global chaos generated by the financial crisis, followed the Jan. l 10 years of its appearance in the European Union.

Since its introduction as a currency., Some 300 million people could operate in the euro area, with own currency, being the actual date of implementation on 4 January 1999 as the first day.

The Club was initially formed by Germany, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Finland, France, Holland. Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg and Portugal (1999). In 2001 he joined Greece, Slovenia and recently in 2007 Malta and Cyprus (2008). In this 2009 income Slovakia. And there are other nations that are discussed and waiting.

justify;">To adopt the Euro, all the countries who did met with so-called Maastricht criteria, namely convergence of inflation, budget deficit and exchange rate stability with their own currencies .-

The euro, which began its first steps rate of $ 1.17, last five years comes to $ 1.39 .- had a basement in 2000 trading at $ 0.83 and the highest peak was in July 2008, topping $ 1.60.

It took nearly 12 months for the euro banknotes and coins were to all citizens and began to tell on their power with the new currency .

With the entry into circulation of euro, a higher transfer of sovereignty from the creation of the European Common Market (ECM), with the creation of the Euro a process of almost 10 years to create the European Economic and Monetary Union (UEE), being a important step in the integration of European Union (EU).

Currently, the euro is established as an international currency, which became a safe currency, the investors who come in times of instability. Professor-Economics Barey Eichengreen University of California, dedicated to the Euro as "the clear winner of the crisis".

On the tenth anniversary of the emergence of the Euro, the Europeans believe that it can overcome the dollar in global significance, in a period not exceeding five years. Europeans also expressed that the ECB will not achieve its objective of maintaining price stability, defined as an inflation rate below 2%, believing that the Euro is responsible for a general increase in prices .

Europe's single currency, for the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire. Happy tenth anniversary.