Photographer: Danny Gys
Heads of State and Government meeting on the euro
The Council has met at the level of Heads of State and Government and has decided that 11 Member States fulfil the necessary conditions for the adoption of the single currency on 1 January 1999. The Council has also adopted two regulations on the harmonisation of technical specifications of coins drawn in euro and on the introduction of the euro. Furthermore, the ministers of economy and finance, the governors of the central banks of the Member States adopting the single currency, the EC and the European Monetary Institute, have specified the conditions for the fixation of the irrevocable euro conversion rates.
Jacques Santer, President of the EC, on the left, and Tony Blair, British Prime Minister ...
Reference:
P-002300
Date:
02/05/1998
Wim Duisenberg, President of the European Monetary Institute, (in the middle) and the ...
Reference:
P-002300
Date:
02/05/1998
Jacques Santer, President of the EC, on the left, and Yves-Thibault de Silguy, Member of ...
Reference:
P-002300
Date:
02/05/1998
Group photo:
From left to right:
1st row: Paavo Tapio Lipponen, Finnish Prime Minister; ...
Reference:
P-002300
Date:
02/05/1998
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