Jacques Chirac1 January 1999
France adopted the euro for accounting and electronic transactions when the single currency was launched.
France · Government / European Economic Community (EEC). Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
France adopted the euro for accounting and electronic transactions when the single currency was launched.
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