The euro launched on 1 January 1999 as an electronic currency for 11 founding nations including Germany, France and Italy, ...

Analysts have described 2022 as “the worst year in the euro’s history”. However, the euro’s relevance has been in decline for the last two decades. Its share of global official holdings of foreign ...

The euro is at the core of the European project, but its future is far from assured. Introduced more than 25 years ago, it has survived one crisis after another, and its rules and institutions have ...

The European Central Bank (ECB) has recently announced significant steps in its pursuit of financial innovation and monetary policy refinement, as outlined in key updates from June and July 2025.

The European Central Bank (ECB) continues to shape the euro area’s economic landscape through its monetary policy decisions, research initiatives, and economic surveys. Recent publications from July ...