What criteria have to be achieved and what tests have to be passed before the government will put entry into the European Single Currency to a Referendum. Evaluate arguments put forward in favour of and against entry into the Single Currency.
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What criteria have to be achieved and what tests have to be passed before the government will put entry into the European Single Currency to a Referendum. Evaluate arguments put forward in favour of and against entry into the Single Currency. First of all we must first answer the question, what is the Euro? The Euro is a single currency within twelve of the fifteen European countries inside the European Union: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and Greece. Together these countries form something called the "euro zone" (the three countries yet to join the European Single Currency are Denmark, Sweden, and the UK). In 1999 eleven members of the European Union signed up and Greece became the twelfth member in January 2001. The E.M.U (European Monetary Union) works a bit like the way all states in the US share the dollar and have the...

