does anyone know what the least strong currency of the EU was at the time of its creation and whose it was.?
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The Italian Lire was by far the worst, which exchanged with the Euro at 1936.27 per Euro.
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http://www.infobel.com/teldir/teldir.asp?page=/eng/euro/cy
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Its good for the eastern european countries because they will inevitibly profit from the deal because the lower cost of doing business there should attract industry and jobs and theoretically open their agricultrual markets.  But bad because they will never have the respect of western europe and will always be treated like the figurative step-children of the EU.\n\nThe EU will eventually collapse because the founding members will not reap the benefits of membership they envisioned at the onset.  The only reason they have grown so quickly is europe is trying to unite under one currency to be larger than the US, but since each country has its own separate economy the two can't really be compared.   The Brits see this which is why the UK has retained its own currency, so when the euro fails along with the EU they will have the strongest currency in Europe.
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It has drifted out to $1.80 for 1 GBP, but I can remember when it was more like $1.50. Gpod news for Brits visiting America, as their pound goes further, bad news for Americans visiting England, as they get less for their dollar.
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They use euros now. It would be worth about a dollar.
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Euro is the currency used in Germany. But Germans pronounce it as Oyro! :)
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The European Union isn't one man's vision.  The simple answer to your question is: no, not anytime soon.  There is far too much variation in language and culture.  Much of the UK (which would have to be a key player) is reluctant to even share currency.  There is nothing approaching a full political union in the works.
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hey u can get a whole report enjoy :)\nwww.euro.who.int/document/aiq/10effso2.pdf
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Denmark has not introduced the euro. This is a consequence of the Edinburgh Decision which was drawn up after the rejection of the Maastricht Treaty at the referendum held in Denmark in June 1992. The Edinburgh Decision was endorsed, together with the Maastricht Treaty, by a Danish referendum in May 1993. On 28 September a majority (53.1 per cent) of the Danish electorate rejected Danish adoption of the euro. As a consequence Denmark remains outside the Eurosystem along with Sweden and the United Kingdom. However, the Danish krone is linked closely to the euro via ERMII, in continuation of the present Danish fixed-exchange-rate policy.
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I don't think there was an official currency as Italy did not exist as a state before 1861.  The country was divided into independent states that were ruled separately by foreign nations; primarily Austria, but also Spain and France.\n\nThere were however a number of different currencies like the lira, such as the Vatican lira and the San Marinese lira.\n\nThe lira was also the currency of the Napoleonic kingdom from 1807-1814
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Right now it's called Real. \n\nIt used to be called "Cruzeiro", which was the currency from 1942 to 1967, then from 1970 to 1986 and lastly from 1990 to 1993.\n\nWe had so many changes because of inflation, but the Real brought an end to it.
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Currently, it's the U.S. dollar (since 2000).  At one time, it was the peso and the sucre
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The European Union is a group of countries in which one can find countries that has a big population like Germany and France and small countries like Luxembourg and Malta.  The European Union is based on a free trade market, the single currency which is the euro and the union help other members to  modernize the country the other country help financially.
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Swedish Currency is the Krona. You can find more information here: http://www.guardianfx.com/information/europe/sweden.html
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The pound was originally the value of one pound (weight) of sterling silver (hence "pound sterling"). The sign for the pound is the pound sign, £ (or rarely just "L"). The pound sign is derived from the original black-letter "L", as the original duodecimal currency system (pounds, shillings and pence) used the abbreviation 'LSD' (librae, solidi, denarii), libra being the Latin word for "pound". The ISO 4217 currency code is GBP (Great Britain Pound). \n\nSo actually both L and P are used.  £ is used most everywhere, but banks and other financial institutions use the GBP abbreviation (saving having to use special characters).\n\nAnd regarding the question of the symbol for U.S. Dollars ($) the sign is attested in business correspondence between British North America and Mexico in the 1770s as referring to the Spanish-Mexican piastre. The piastre was known as "Spanish dollar" in British North America, and in 1785, it was adopted as U.S. currency, together with both the term "dollar" and the $ sign.\n\nThe sign's ultimate origins are not certain. The most widely accepted explanation, according to the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, is that "$" is a corruption of the letters "PS" or "Ps" (for 'peso' or 'piastre' - especially the former, as each letter could represent each syllable of "Pé-So") written over each other in Spanish. Eventually, the 'P' was reduced to a vertical line.\n\nThe ISO currency code for U.S. Dollars is USD (again to avoid special characters).
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First, go here:\n\nhttp://finance.yahoo.com/currency\n\nOne US dollar is worth .7783 Euro. One Euro is worth 1.2848 dollars. To go from one direction to the other, just divide into 1. So to see how many dollars a Euro gets: 1/(.7783)=1.2848. And in the opposite direction: 1/(1.2848)= .783 Euro.\n\nFrom these currency values, you can see that a US dollar is worth less than one Euro, for otherwise they would trade 1-to-1.  Because currencies like the dollar and the Euro are not priced by the government (well they are in some ways, but typically currencies freely "float" on the free market) these values will reflect the demand for Euros versus dollars. (In some cases the central bank will intervene to change the price of the currency). \n\nThe Euro, since its inception in 1999, has tended to be "stronger" than the dollar. (i.e. you get more dollars per each Euro).  That strength might be cause by both real and perceived factors. Real factors might have to do with balance of payments (trade between Europe and the US) and perceived factors might have to do with people's perceptions about which currency is stronger in the long term.\n\nBecause our US dollar gets us fewer Euros, everything we buy from countries that use the Euro will be more expensive. But the opposite is true for Europeans: they can now buy more with a stronger Euro if they buy imported US goods.  This sets in motion some interesting politics: Exporters like a weaker dollar because Europeans will buy more US goods with their stronger Euro. But this also makes imported European goods more expensive, and that is a disadvantage for importers.\n\nIf I use my dollar and exchange it for Euros so that I buy European equities (stocks), and my dollar drops in value, I also get an economic benefit here. When I sell my European Euro-denominated stocks and convert from Euros to dollars, I will get back more dollars. \n\nMany people make money by following trends in currency prices, although to make money you have to buy and sell very large quantities of currencies- something that most people do not want to risk. Through something call price arbitrage, currencies will generally converge on one price regardless of how many are bought and sold. To illustrate an example:\n\nSay there are 3 currencies, A, B, C. A might be the dollar, B might be the Euro, and C might be the Yen.  If I use A and convert to B, and then take B and convert to C, and finally take C and convert back to A, I should get back approximately the same starting value of A I had.  The same goes regardless of which currency you start out with.  However, sometimes there are minute differences, meaning that when you get back to "A" you might end up having more (or less) than you started out with. The positive difference would be a small profit for you just for converting between currencies.\n\nThere are risks and costs, however. One cost is that every currency transaction has a price. Those who trade in currencies are in business to make money, and they will usually tax you for their services. If you have ever been to a foreign country you will notice that to buy a foreign currency you will have to pay more dollars than you get back when you want to convert the foreign currency into dollars. The difference is the profit that the currency trader makes. A second risk is that currency fluctuations happen fast and in order to make any profit you have to be very quick. You can lose a lot of money by day trading currencies.\n\nIn any case, that should give you a little background on currency exchange.\n\nPS: for 995 Euros: \n\n(995)x(1.2848)= $1,278 dollars.
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The euro is the currency of twelve European Union countries, stretching from the Mediterranean to the Arctic Circle (namely Belgium, Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal and Finland).\n\nEuro banknotes and coins have been in circulation since 1 January 2002 and are now a part of daily life for over 300 million Europeans living in the euro area.