This document is an excerpt from the EUR-Lex website
Euro area
The euro area is formed by the European Union (EU) Member States in which the currency is the euro and in which a single monetary policy is conducted under the responsibility of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank. It comprises the 21 Member States that have adopted the euro as their official currency.
The euro area Member States are: Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Croatia, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Slovenia, Slovakia and Finland.
As these countries share the same currency, and a single monetary policy and exchange rate policy, they need to coordinate their economic policies very closely, with the common objective of stability and growth. This is done on an ongoing basis and by means of monthly meetings of the Eurogroup, where issues of common concern for the euro area are discussed and coordinated.
- Convergence criteria
- Economic and monetary union (EMU)
- Euro
- Eurogroup
- European Central Bank (ECB)
- European Union
- Conversion rates between national currencies and the euro (summary)
- EU economic and monetary union (summary)
- Euro adoption (summary)
- Overview of the euro (European Central Bank)
- How you benefit from the euro (European Central Bank)
- Our money (European Central Bank)
- The international role of the euro (European Central Bank)
- Digital euro (European Central Bank)
- The euro area in comparison (European Central Bank)
- The euro in a changing world (European Central Bank)
- Joining the euro area (European Central Bank)
- How to join the euro area (European Council)
- What does a country need to do to join the euro area? (European Central Bank)
- Countries using the euro (European Union)
- The euro outside Europe (European Central Bank).
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