Slovakia to adopt Euro from January 2009

EU finance ministries have unanimously approved the adoption of the Euro by Slovakia as its currency from 1 Janaury 2009 at the irrevocable fixed conversion rate of 30.126 Slovak Korunas for 1 Euro. See also the BBC report here.From January 2009 therefore, sixteen countries will have the Euro as their common currency: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy,