Euro Area

The Euro Area is a group of 19 EU Member States that share the euro as single currency.

''What is the euro area? The euro area (also known as the eurozone) consists of those European Union countries which have adopted the euro as their currency.''

Membership

 * 1999 Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain.
 * 2001 Greece
 * 2007 Slovenia
 * 2008 Cyprus, Malta
 * 2009 Slovakia
 * 2011 Estonia
 * 2014 Latvia
 * 2015 Lithuania

Applicants

 * 2019 Romania

External

 * DG ECFIN, The euro
 * DG ECFIN, The euro, Who can join and when?
 * Wikipedia, Eurozone