Seventeen nations history

Not everyone is fortunate enough to be able to afford to travel to Europe but if you like to keep up to what is going on with the EU and with the EMU and Euro area then this blog might just be for you.

Knowing that there are seventeen nations that currently trade the Euro currency is general knowledge but understanding the way that these nations came into being gives meaning to that understanding.

For example did you know that some of the most beautiful architecture in Austria is seen in the palaces of the Hapsburg family who provided the roots of the Hapsburg dynasty?

Did you know that the Baltic State of Estonia was until 1991 under the rule of the Soviet Union ?

Did you know that Slovania used the Tolar as a currency of trade until it joined the euro area ?

Did you know that Franco-German rivalry has played out in western Europe for hundreds of years and that France and Germany are members of the seventeen nations that strive to compete under sovereign rules governed by the European Union and the EMU ?

Did you know that Ireland is a euro zone member but that the UK and Britain isn't while both are members of the 27 member European Union ?

Seventeen nations history facts and trivia could fill many volumes.

We think that getting to know who the seventeen nations of the eurozone are can help us to better understand who we are so this seventeen nations blog provides an ongoing journal of our learning about the EU and the Euro area and the use of currency in Europe.