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Euro Monetary Union Begins

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

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1999

Oskar Lafontaine1 January 1999

Berlin · Government / European Economic Community (EEC)

Serves as finance minister when Germany enters the third stage of economic and monetary union.

Names involved

Oskar Lafontaine

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