Bug#131951: www.debian.org: Wrong facts on <http://www.debian.org/News/2001/20011231>
Package: www.debian.org
Version: 20020202
Severity: wishlist
The news page at www.debian.org reports the following regarding the EURO:
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On January 1, 2002, twelve of the countries in the European Economic
and Monetary Union (EMU) will give up their own currencies and adopt
the new Euro (EUR) currency: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany,
Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain.
The Vatican City is also participating in the changeover. Countries that
have used the currency of one of the above countries will adopt the Euro
as well. This makes it a total of about forty countries which will share
the common currency.
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This is not correct. The mentioned countries gave up their currencies
on January 1, 1999. From this date the EURO was already used for
international payment transaction.
On January 1, 2002, just only the banknotes and coins were released for
public use.
mfg,
Moritz Kaiser
-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Kernel Version: Linux gargravar 2.2.17 #9 Tue Nov 13 21:10:05 CET 2001 i586 unknown
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