what currency does greece use?
Euro
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 As of early 2008 , the official position of Greece , adopted unanimously by the four largest political parties , has made a more moderate shift towards accepting a " composite name solution " ( i.e. the use of the name " Macedonia " plus some qualifier ) , so as to disambiguate the former Yugoslav Republic from the Greek region of Macedonia and the wider geographic region of the same name . 

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 As of January 2014 , and since the introduction of the euro , interest rates of most members countries ( particularly those with a weak currency ) , have decreased . The countries whose interest rates fell most as a result of the adoption of the euro are Greece , Ireland , Portugal , Spain , and Italy . These very countries have had the most serious sovereign financing problems . 

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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 procedure used to fix the conversion rate between the Greek drachma and the euro was different , since the euro by then was already two years old . While the conversion rates for the initial eleven currencies were determined only hours before the euro was introduced , the conversion rate for the Greek drachma was fixed several months beforehand . 

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