The switch to a single European currency may cause changes in pricing behaviour, which will further muddy the waters.
In December 1991, the Maastricht Treaty called for a single European currency.
EU. Otmar Issing, now chief economist at the European Central Bank, used to be sceptical of the very idea of a single European currency.
The British always opposed the idea of a single European currency.
All this may be blocking the attempt to bring down record-high unemployment, revitalise the economy and fit Germany into the harness of a single European currency.
The answer has come, again, today in the form of the European Central Bank, reluctantly filling the gap between a single European currency and its very un-singular politics.
The Tories have launched a new poster campaign raising the issue of a European single currency - this time without a hitch.
But European investors are also adjusting to another, possibly more permanent, change: a European single currency, due in 1999.
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Mr Hague knows that his party is split over whether a European single currency is or is not a constitutional affront, so, despite his own passionate views, he has hung his argument against it on economics.
Having successfully adopted a single market, the European Union is now taking on a single currency.
The last time we went down this path under a de facto European single currency (the gold standard), it took European states into hateful and divisive stages of our past.
Domestically, he can reassure voters that Europe is moving Britain's way on economic and social policy, and argue that Britain is an equal power to France and Germany (something his focus groups tell him is vital for winning a referendum on joining the single European currency).
In her 2002 book, Statecraft, she suggested the European single currency was an attempt to create a "European super state" and would fail "economically, politically and socially".
At the same time, a newly united, confident Germany accelerated the process of European unity and preparations for a single currency.
On the one hand, some Conservatives call the single currency a folly of European grandeur, doomed from birth.
The Union's most attention-catching projects in the last decade have been the creation of an internal market, a single currency and an independent European central bank.
Six months ago, 11 countries in the European Union adopted a single, shared currency, the euro.
Many governments used the drive to prepare for the European single currency as a cover for reducing their budget deficits in the 1990s.
He was known as a pro-European who committed Italy to European integration and helped forge the way forward to a single currency.
In a region where four of the five countries (Finland is the exception) are either doubtful about joining the single European currency or certain not to, there is a reluctance to swallow nostrums from abroad.
As the European Union's leaders prepared to choose in Brussels which countries would qualify for the single currency , a row over who would head the planned European Central Bank shook the markets' faith in the future currency's credibility.
In contrast, both Japan and the European countries that are adopting a single currency next year are running significant current-account surpluses.
The single currency has created a liquid market in European corporate bonds.
And on the right, Mr Goldsmith will be a player in the campaign against Britain's joining the single European currency.
He has overseen healthy economic growth, and won a resounding success in getting Portugal to qualify for the European single currency.
He said no, European governments would find a way to hold the single currency intact, if only because the alternative was too ghastly to contemplate.
Like her new boss, she is in favour of joining the European single currency - likely to have been a key consideration in the mayor having chosen her for the post.
"Euro plumbs new depths as oil prices soar to new heights: bad news for Europe, " says a commentary in Turin's La Stampa of the European single currency's new record low against the dollar.
There is even a precedent: Italy imposed a small tax on all deposits in 1992 as part of its battle to stay in the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, a precursor to the single currency.
She needs to lay out a clear plan for the single currency, at the latest by the European summit on June 28th, earlier if Greece's election spreads panic.
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