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Italy Portugal Finland Luxembourg France Slovenia Austria Germany Greece Spain
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 With all but two of the remaining EU members obliged to join , together with future members of the EU , the enlargement of the eurozone is set to continue . Outside the EU , the euro is also the sole currency of Montenegro and Kosovo and several European microstates ( Andorra , Monaco , San Marino and the Vatican City ) as well as in four overseas territories of EU members that are not themselves part of the EU ( Saint Barthélemy , Saint Pierre and Miquelon , the French Southern and Antarctic Lands and Akrotiri and Dhekelia ) . Together this direct usage of the euro outside the EU affects nearly 3 million people . 

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 The euro ( sign : € ; code : EUR ) is the official currency of the eurozone , which consists of 19 of the 28 member states of the European Union : Austria , Belgium , Cyprus , Estonia , Finland , France , Germany , Greece , Ireland , Italy , Latvia , Lithuania , Luxembourg , Malta , the Netherlands , Portugal , Slovakia , Slovenia , and Spain . The currency is also officially used by the institutions of the European Union and four other European countries , as well as unilaterally by two others , and is consequently used daily by some 337 million Europeans as of 2015 . Outside of Europe , a number of overseas territories of EU members also use the euro as their currency . 

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 The European Commission also specified a euro logo with exact proportions and foreground and background colour tones . While the Commission intended the logo to be a prescribed glyph shape , font designers made it clear that they intended to design their own variants instead . Typewriters lacking the euro sign can create it by typing a capital ' C ' , backspacing and overstriking it with the equal ( ' = ' ) sign . Placement of the currency sign relative to the numeric amount varies from nation to nation , but for texts in English the symbol ( or the ISO @-@ standard " EUR " ) should precede the amount . 

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 The euro was established by the provisions in the 1992 Maastricht Treaty . To participate in the currency , member states are meant to meet strict criteria , such as a budget deficit of less than three percent of their GDP , a debt ratio of less than sixty percent of GDP ( both of which were ultimately widely flouted after introduction ) , low inflation , and interest rates close to the EU average . In the Maastricht Treaty , the United Kingdom and Denmark were granted exemptions per their request from moving to the stage of monetary union which would result in the introduction of the euro . 

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 The euro is the sole currency of 19 EU member states : Austria , Belgium , Cyprus , Estonia , Finland , France , Germany , Greece , Ireland , Italy , Latvia , Lithuania , Luxembourg , Malta , the Netherlands , Portugal , Slovakia , Slovenia , and Spain . These countries constitute the " eurozone " , some 332 million people in total as of 2013 . 
