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Euro Launch

France · Government / European Economic Community (EEC). Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1999

Jacques Chirac1 January 1999

Paris · Government / European Economic Community (EEC)

France adopted the euro for accounting and electronic transactions when the single currency was launched.

Names involved

Jacques Chirac

Provenance

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