What is this currency symbol? ” € “?
€ is the currency symbol for the “euro” in Europe. It is the official currency in 16 of the current 27 member states of the European Union and these countries are sometimes referred to as the “Eurozone”. The countries are: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain The currency was an online international accounting currency from 1st January 1999, but then the notes and coins came into usage on 1st January 2002, however some countries didn’t adopt the Euro until many years afterwards (eg. Slovakia only introduced the Euro on 1st January 2009).
