The European Union approved creating the euro currency in 1992 to facilitate commercial exchanges and avoid currency conversion between member states. Over time, 19 of the European Union's members adopted the euro as their currency, with the first countries doing so in 1999 and the most recent being Estonia in 2011. While euro coins have a common design across countries, euro banknotes feature different national sides to represent each member state's history and culture.

2. The creation of the same currency was
approved in 1992 to make the
commercial exchanges easier and to
avoid the change of the currency

3. States of the European Union adopting the euro:
- Austria,1999
- Belgium,1999
- Cyprus and Malta,
2008
- Estonia and Greece,
2011
- Finland,1999
- France,1999
- Germany,1999
- Ireland,1999
- Italy, 1999
- Luxembourg,1999
- Netherlands, 1999
- Portugal, 1999
- Slovakia,2009
- Slovenia, 2007
- Spain, 1999

4. .
The coins are the same in all the
European States but the they have
a different image on their face.

5. 1) The name derives from the word
Europa and was adopted by the
European Council of Madrid in
1995.
2) It was inspired by the Greek letter
epsilon, the greek culture is the
basis of the Italian history.