euro (eiro) (currency sign: €; banking code: EUR)
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EIRO Euro
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The European Central Bank is trying to curb varying spellings of the word euro.
But Latvia, which has fought hard to keep its own language, says no amount of EU
rhetoric will change it back from eiro.
Latvia's government has decided to change the euro to fit their language, in
which Europe is Eiropa and euro eiro. But the European Central Bank and other EU
bodies have told the country it has gone too far. Latvia should use the standard
written form when it adopts the currency in 2008, the EU says.
Latvia, however, has remained steadfast, saying it will take the issue to the
European Court of Justice if necessary. It's a matter of protecting both
national heritage and EU ethics, according to Latvian Education Minister Ina
Druviete.
"It's not an issue of monetary policy. It's an issue of Latvian language policy,
and we have to protect our languages," said Druviete. "The motto of the European
Union is unity in diversity, and languages are the most specific representation
of this diversity. I regret that officials from European institutions were so
ignorant because it's not a detail. Language is a representation of national
identity, and any interference in such a subtle sphere would have very serious
consequences."
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Language protection is an extremely sensitive issue in Latvia. During Soviet
occupation, Moscow forced Russian on the nations that made up the USSR. The
result was the near death of the Latvian language, not to mention the massive
displacement of tens of thousands of Latvian people to make space for Russians
to move in and impose a Russian-language school system.
After Latvia gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, there was a
countrywide drive to re-establish the Latvian language. Today it's spoken by
two-thirds of the population.
Latvian belongs to the Baltic group of Indo-European languages. "It's a language
with ancient spelling traditions, and we have no such diphthong as 'eu' in our
language," Druviete explained.
The euro (currency sign: €; banking code: EUR) is the official currency of
the Eurozone (also known as the Euro Area or the Euro Land), which consists of
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The euro was introduced to world financial markets as an accounting currency in
1999 and launched as physical coins and banknotes in 2002. It replaced the
former European Currency Unit (ECU) at a ratio of 1:1.
The euro is managed and administered by the Frankfurt-based European Central
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operation of the Eurozone payment systems.
While all European Union (EU) member states are eligible to join if they comply
with certain monetary requirements, not all EU members have chosen to adopt the
currency. All nations that have joined the EU since the 1993 implementation of
the Maastricht Treaty have pledged to adopt the euro in due course. Maastricht
obliged current members to join the euro; however, the United Kingdom and
Denmark negotiated exemptions from that requirement for themselves[3]. Sweden
turned down the euro in a 2003 referendum, and has circumvented the requirement
to join the euro area by not meeting the membership criteria. Several small
European states (The Vatican, Monaco, and San Marino), although not EU members,
have adopted the euro due to currency unions with member states. Andorra,
Montenegro, and Kosovo have adopted the euro unilaterally.
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