Throwback Thursday: Party Like It's 1999 -- The Euro
In this photo illustration, a one Euro coin lies on Euro currency bills on June 21, 2011 in Berlin, Germany.
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For the next installment of our "Party Like It’s 1999" series, The Economist'sJohn Peet joins us to take a look back at the history of the euro, which was adopted by eleven European nations on January 1, 1999.