freshold said on June 27, 2002 00:26:

and EURO is the money in the EU

frodi said on June 27, 2002 09:22:

The thought is that Euro SHOULD be money of all the countries in EU. Unfortunately politician are cowardly holding it back in some countrty. Like here in Sweden for example.

Agghrr!

C’ ya!

joyrider said on June 27, 2002 10:09:

our economic teachers told us, that in a couple of years the name EU will be replaced to > USE

frodi said on June 27, 2002 12:00:

When it all went up, 1996 or maybe it was´95, they said that if we’re gonna have it we’ll have it by the year 2002. Do I see any? Yesterday I read a correspondent in our local newspapper and he wrote a couple of positive changes it would be if we traded to EURO and he finnish with the words:

“Göran Persson is a covard by not let the Swedish people to vote for it.”

I hope that we can get the EURO as soon as possible.

C’ ya!

coyboyusa said on June 27, 2002 12:19:

it was my understanding that alot f countries were against the euro because it was valued less than their national currency

Vixzter said on June 27, 2002 16:32:

In some cases having the Euro has made things more exspensive, everyday things like bread, milk and cigarettes.
How the hell did that happen?? ;) surely a loaf of bread is worth the same in old currency as in euros.
Its not just alot of the Swedes against it...its alot of British too. :P and as for Norway...they don’t even wanna join the EU ;)
I’m all for a vote on wether we should join the single currency or not, then atleast the ppls here will have a say, but so far nothing like that has happend. I hate politics.

pietROxette said on June 28, 2002 05:18:

EU countries:

Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, UK, Ireland.

Out of these countries, 3 are not part of the Euro-zone: the UK, Sweden and Denmark.

The EU - more precisely, the EEC (European Economic Comminuty) was formed in 1957 with the Treaty Of Rome. The founders were: Germany, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg. The aim was to create a free trade zone between these countries, that is, no duties would have been used when a product is taken from a country to another. Later on, the integration got stronger, so called “common policies” were issued: that is, in certain fields, the member countries decided to work out regulations and priogrammes together. The EEC got expanded, new members were accepted, the name was changed from EEC to EC (European Communities). Integration became stronger during the years.

In 1991 they signed the Treaty of Maastricht, also called the Treaty on the European Union. This is the time when we can start talking about the European Union. In the beginning, the EEC was to create a free trade zone. The main principle of the EU is the free flow of goods, services, people and money. So the citizens of memeber countries can work in other member countries, they can have enterprises in another country, ect.

The next idea was to create a European Monetary Union, which has been created in 3 phases. The last phase was to launch the common currency: the Euro. We are now in the very last part of the last phase of creating the EMU: national currencies of EMU member countries must be completely withdrawn till July 1, 2002. Then, the EMU is complete.

tevensso (moderator) said on July 1, 2002 10:35:

I don’t like EU or the Euro, but that’s just my opinion. And I’m Swedish by the way.

daniel_alv said on July 2, 2002 00:01:

EURO is the money in 12 of the EU states... the ones who have joined EMU (European Moneterian Union)

The ones who are in EU but not in EMU are
Sweden, Denmark and the UK