Germany is still rummaging around. The youngsters when they get a kebab at the snack bar, the couple who buy vegetables at the weekly market, or the grandma who fishes a euro out of her wallet and throws it into a tin can to light a candle in the church. They all still pay the small amounts in cash – sometimes not voluntarily, however. But because there is still no alternative to it. Other countries are already further along. In
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20 years of the euro: Germans are slowly getting used to cash – economy
20 years of the euro: The D-Mark feeling
Even if it didn’t look like it 20 years ago, the euro has now become a symbol for Europe. It is like many things in life: First you get nagged, then you get used to it.
The euro: stronger than ever? – Business
Sauna evenings, debt fraud and an Italian with a spiked hat: How the euro stumbled from crisis to crisis, but is stronger today than ever before.
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Alexander Hagelüken
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Twenty years ago, the euro replaced national currencies such as the German mark, the lira and the franc as cash. In a series, the SZ explains why the euro was controversial among economists and which crises the common currency had to survive. You can find
Why the Stability Pact is changed so often – Economy
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Twenty years ago, the euro replaced national currencies such as the German mark, the lira and the franc as cash. In a series, the SZ explains why the euro was controversial among economists and which crises the common currency had to survive. You can find all articles on this overview page.
Pacta sunt servanda, it says in Latin, treaties or pacts are to be adhered to. Looking at the Stability and Growth Pact the
Why the EU Commission wants to ban high cash payments – economy
Cash is true, this is especially true in Germany. The Germans comparatively like to pay with bills and coins and rarely use cards or even their cell phones, like international surveys show. But at least with very large amounts, the EU Commission should no longer be able to do this. The Brussels authority has in the summer Bills presentedwith which she wants to intensify the fight against money laundering. This includes the plan to introduce an EU-wide limit for
20 years of the euro: flower art from Naples – economy
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Twenty years ago, the euro replaced national currencies such as the German mark, the lira and the franc as cash. In a series, the SZ explains why the euro was controversial among economists and which crises the common currency had to survive. You can find all articles on this overview page.
A couple of false notes started the investigation. The very good quality euro blossoms were seized in 2018 and assigned to the so-called
The digital euro – what exactly is it? – Business
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Jannis Brühl and Markus Zydra, Frankfurt
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Twenty years ago, the euro replaced national currencies such as the German mark, the lira and the franc as cash. In a series, the SZ explains why the euro was controversial among economists and which crises the common currency had to survive. You can find all articles on this overview page.
“Even in the digital age, citizens and companies should have access to the safest money.” This
The first round of cards with the euro economy
December 17, 2001 was a Monday, the weather in Munich was “covered with snow”, as the historical calendar shows. After work, the then 41-year-old civil engineer Peter Brückner made his way to his Sparkasse branch, where something new was being offered: the first euro coins. The European Central Bank had the idea of making so-called starter kits available to banks 14 days before the actual introduction in order to get citizens used to the new money. They were euro coins,
With the starter kit you get less today – economy
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Twenty years ago, the euro replaced national currencies such as the German mark, the lira and the franc as cash. In a new series, the SZ explains why the euro was controversial among economists and which crises the common currency had to survive. You can find all articles on this overview page.
It’s one of those things with nicknames. You can’t choose them and once they’re in circulation, you can’t get rid of
20 Years of the Euro: The History of the Teuro Economy
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Markus Zydra, Frankfurt
New series: 20 years of the euro
Twenty years ago, the euro replaced national currencies such as the German mark, the lira and the franc as cash. In a new series, the SZ explains why the euro was controversial among economists and which crises the common currency had to survive. You can find all articles on this overview page.
New Year’s Eve 2001/2002. In Frankfurt there are many firecrackers in front of the headquarters of the