The euro turns 20!
At first the euro was mistrusted, with many calling it the “teuro” (“expensive euro”). Around 20 years ago, 70% of the participants in a survey by the Institut für Demoskopie responded that they had “little or no trust” in the euro, which had been introduced in cash form on 1 January 2002. Today, 82% of Germans support the euro. The Bundesbank played a key role in the introduction of euro cash in January 2002.
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Wim Duisenberg, then in office as the President of the European Central Bank, presenting the new euro banknotes on 30 August 2001. -
The designer of the euro banknotes, Robert Kalina, presenting a freshly printed sheet of €10 banknotes. -
Information on the euro Copyright. -
Young people holding giant euro banknotes to celebrate the launch of the new currency during New Year festivities at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, 1 January 2002. -
Nicole Fontaine (r.), then in office as the President of the European Parliament, buying a bottle of champagne with her first euro banknotes -
A man on stilts, dressed in the colours of the euro and pushing a “euro roll”, as part of a parade in Paris marking the launch of the single currency. -
A teenager in Spain buying a starter kit. -
Elderly women with euro banknotes -
A man protesting against the planned launch of the euro and in favour of keeping the D-Mark at Theaterplatz in Dresden.