Package: www.debian.org Version: 20020202 Severity: wishlist The news page at www.debian.org reports the following regarding the EURO: ----8<-------- 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. ---->8---------
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
