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Greek Drachma Enters ERM

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

2Records
1998Date range
2Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1998

Yannos Papantoniou16 March 1998

Athens · Government / European Economic Community (EEC)

Oversees economic policy as the drachma joins the exchange-rate mechanism with a central rate of 357 per ECU.

Costas Simitis16 March 1998

Athens · Government / European Economic Community (EEC)

Heads the government when the drachma enters the European Monetary System exchange-rate mechanism.

Names involved

Costas SimitisYannos Papantoniou

Provenance

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