JStaff writer
Eleven of the 15 European Union countries unified their currencies into a new single currency, the euro, today.
It will be used only on the books until January 2002, when euro cash enters circulation. But the prospects of integration have already been affecting economic activities in and outside Europe. The euro zone is expected to incorporate not only Britain and the remaining EU states but Eastern Europe in the future.
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