What is "euro"

name for the basic monetary unit of a pan-European currency, from 1996.

Etymology 1 alt. 1 The currency unit of the . Symbol: '''€''' 2 A coin with a face value of 1 euro. 3 An abbreviation for European in any sense; e.g. "euro size"; "euro style pad". n. 1 The currency unit of the . Symbol: '''€''' 2 A coin with a face value of 1 euro. 3 An abbreviation for European in any sense; e.g. "euro size"; "euro style pad". Etymology 2

n. (taxlink Macropus robustus species noshow=1), a wallaroo (macropod species).

n. the basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999); in 2002 twelve European nations (Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Austria, Finland) adopted the euro as their basic unit of money and abandoned their traditional currencies

Euro (sign: €; code: EUR) is the official currency of the eurozone.

Euro may also refer to:

• Euro (rapper) (born 1992), a Dominican-American rapper

• UEFA European Football Championship
• European emission standards, acceptable limits for exhaust emissions of new vehicles sold in EU member states
• Association of European Operational Research Societies
• A European (informal use), see European ethnic groups

• Euro, Western Australia, an abandoned town in Western Australia
• Eastern Wallaroo, also known as the Common Wallaroo, the Hill Wallaroo or the Euro, a large, variable species of kangaroo
• Italian frigate Euro (F 575)
• European-American Unity and Rights Organization, EURO, a white nationalist organization in the United States
• Eurogame, a style of board game gameplay originating from Germany.
• Eurodance

Eufradis Rodriguez, (born October 27, 1992), better known by his stage name Euro, is a Dominican-American rapper signed to Young Money Entertainment, and was born in the Dominican Republic. Lil Wayne announced that he is the new member of Young Money on his Dedication 5 mixtape. He then appeared on the second Young Money compilation album, Young Money: Rise of an Empire, on three songs, including the first single " We Alright". Euro released an mixtape called July, on July 31, 2014. It was a preview for the mixtape, Don't Expect Nothing that has multiple delays and has no scheduled release date.

The euro ( sign: €; code: EUR) is the official currency of the eurozone, which consists of 19 of the member states of the European Union: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain. The currency is also officially used by the institutions of the European Union and four other European countries, as well as unilaterally by two others, and is consequently used daily by some 337 million Europeans . Outside of Europe, a number of overseas territories of EU members also use the euro as their currency.

Additionally, 210 million people worldwide use currencies pegged to the euro. The euro is the second largest reserve currency as well as the second most traded currency in the world after the United States dollar. , with more than €995,000,000,000 in circulation, the euro has the highest combined value of banknotes and coins in circulation in the world, having surpassed the U.S. dollar.:
Total EUR currency (coins and banknotes) in circulation 771.5 (banknotes) + 21.032 (coins) =792.53 billion EUR * 1.48 (exchange rate) = 1,080 billion USD
Total USD currency (coins and banknotes) in circulation 859 billion USD

Based on International Monetary Fund estimates of 2008 GDP and purchasing power parity among the various currencies, the eurozone is the second largest economy in the world.

The name euro was officially adopted on 16 December 1995. The euro was introduced to world financial markets as an accounting currency on 1 January 1999, replacing the former European Currency Unit (ECU) at a ratio of 1:1 (US$1.1743). Physical euro coins and banknotes entered into circulation on 1 January 2002, making it the day-to-day operating currency of its original members, and by May 2002 had completely replaced the former currencies. While the euro dropped subsequently to US$0.8252 within two years (26 October 2000), it has traded above the U.S. dollar since the end of 2002, peaking at US$1.6038 on 18 July 2008. Since late 2009, the euro has been immersed in the European sovereign-debt crisis which has led to the creation of the European Financial Stability Facility as well as other reforms aimed at stabilising the currency. In July 2012, the euro fell below US$1.21 for the first time in two years, following concerns raised over Greek debt and Spain's troubled banking sector. , the euro–dollar exchange rate stands at ~ US$1.1137.