If you have any sites to suggest especially in
the countries without many links below,
please use the feedback form. Equally, if you find
that any of these sites do NOT contain useful information on the euro, please
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PRO-EURO: Click on the buttons above to find out
more about the European Union. (The link http://www.europae.net/euwebring.html
is inactive August 2002)
This is a mail list discussing the euro changover. It was hosted by
Tenagra.com as the Euro2002 list until 2002. Its initial focus was on
technical and operational matters, and now has broadened to include topics of
politics, economics, monetary policy, and the effect on the consumer. Details of
how to subscribe
are in the EURO FAQ.
http://europa.eu.int/comm/mediatheque/multimedia/archive/index.htm
"Since it was decided to launch a single currency in Europe, numerous Internet
sites dealing with the euro have been set up by individuals, institutions,
companies, etc. In order to keep this Internet memory of the euro alive, the
Directorate General Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission
has decided to store all these documents –whether merely informative, in favour
of or against the euro currency - in an electronic archival resource,
Euro-Archives, which aims to make all points of view on the euro accessible to
the widest possible audience."
The European Commission site "The euro - one currency for Europe" is
europa.eu.int/euro.
It has sections on economic union, women, children, business, public services,
disabled, consumers etc.
The
euro - the EU in your hand Euro essentials
Coins - Notes - Sign ; Conversion rates ; Euro converter ; Reference Texts ; Non-EU countries
; Press Releases ; Quest - questions & answers (database of FAQs); Glossary of EMU
; Archives ; News ; Publications ; Speeches and C.V.s ; Euro presentations ; Statistical Indicators
; Links ; further information.
The site had card games "Domineuro",
"Euro beg of my neighbour","Eurobingo", "Euro shopping", "Holiday
2001. Don't forget to pack the euro !", "Mock-up of the euro coins", "Euro dummy
banknotes for the training of blind, deaf and handicapped persons", the "Euro
Made Easy Projects" and background studies on psycho-sociological aspects.
http://europa.eu.int/comm/mediatheque/photo/euro_en.html
Other photographs, images, audio and video clips may be
obtained free of charge from the Central Audiovisual Library, European Commission.
Photos are not subject to copyright and can be used for non-commercial use.
www.europa.eu.int/comm/economy_finance/document/misc/eurouse_en.htm
(Offline Dec 2001) was the Quarterly Review of the Use of the Euro by the DG for Economy and
Finance. This note is a synthesis of the
various studies existing on the development of the use of
the euro by the customers, the businesses and the public
administrations in the Member States participating to the
EMU. It also presents the results of a regular survey of the
Commission among European banks on the share of the euro in
the payments and bank accounts.
Euro Info Centres (EIC) act as an interface between
European institutions and at a local level to
help them gain easier access to the opportunities presented
by Europe and to prepare them for crucial milestones, such
as the euro, electronic commerce, enlargement etc. The
following is a link to a map of all EICs:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/networks/eic/eic-geo-cover_en.html
Geographical Coverage and Addresses. Euro Info Centres and
Euro Info Correspondence Centres are present in the
following countries. Austria Belgium Bulgaria Czech Republic
Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary
Iceland Ireland Italy Luxembourg The Netherlands Norway
Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden
United Kingdom Cyprus Egypt Gaza Israël Jordan Latvia
Lebanon Malta Syria Switzerland Tunisia Turkey
You can also download from that page the full address
list of all Euro Info Centres & Euro Info Correspondence
Centres (PDF format)
The EU Programme for the Information Society (ISPO) has a Web site concerning the IT
impact of euro conversion at: http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/y2keuro/euroit.htm
This site features case studies from large
companies across Europe.
www.euro.ecb.int The European Central Bank
euro website: Euro banknotes and
coins - How to get ready for the euro - New and events and also an information section for children.
www.ecb.int ECB (previously the European Monetary Institute)
main site offers statistics, MFIs and assets, publications, EMI archives, links to EU Central Banks. (banque
centrale europienne, europese centrale bank, banco central europeo)
eib.eu.int (Offline Dec 2001) European Investment
Bank site provides projects, loans, resources, press
releases and publications on Euro.
http://europa.eu.int/comm/enlargement/atoz.htm
The Enlargement Website - From A to Z; on the accession candidate countries
(Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta,
Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey)
www.euro.fee.be the Federation of European Accounting
Experts (FEE). Information for auditors, accountants and business
managers. Two key documents are "Software
issues for SMEs" (PDF) and "What
would happen to a company that was not ready on 1.1.2002?"
(PDF) The site features the EuroForum ListServer, newsletters, EC Quarterly Review, brochures, case studies, checklists, the Legal Framework, Consumer Information, National Regulations, Events and presentations, Euro Trophies.
A comprehensive set of checklists for changeover planning
and advisory notes can be downloaded.
Note: the term "SME" here
means "Small and Medium Enterprise", not the other
acronym "subject matter expert". In Europe, SME is defined as a company employing
less than 250 employees and has either sales less than
Euro 40 million per annum or a balance sheet total
of less than Euro 27 million. In addition, the
company must be independent – i.e. separate from an
economic group that is stronger than an SME.
www.eurochambres.be
Eurochambres comprises a business-support network of more than 1,300 Chambers of
Commerce and Industry and their national organisations in 34 European countries,
representing more than 14,000,000 enterprises.
www.eurocommerce.be
Eurocommerce Retail Trades association had a downloadable section of research
papers including "Introducing Euro notes and coins to the public" (offline
Feb 2003)
www.ueapme.com/eurobest/uk.htm
EuroBest - best practices recommendations from EUAPME, the
European association of SMEs (PME="Petites et Moyennes Entreprises")
www.efaa.com/papers/euro.html
The site of the European Federation of Accountants and Auditors for SMEs offers
a practical guide for the SME accountant to enable him and his clients to survive the
introduction of the euro.
www.fbe.be
Fédération Bancaire de l’Union Européenne. The Banking
Federation of the European Union is the united voice of the
banks of the European Union (EU) and of the European Free
Trade Association (EFTA) countries. The site has documents,
position papers, surveys, recommendations for banks.
www.asb.org.uk/publications/publication152.html
The Accounting Standards Board UK UITF Information Sheet 30 Issued 20 August
1998 Further accounting issues arising from the introduction of the euro (not
available May 2004)
The OECD issued a paper called "The Economic Consequences of the Euro for
the Agro-Food Sector". It analyses the impacts on farm incomes and prices, the
rural economy, and intra-EU and international trade flows.
It used to be at www.oecd.org//agr/Documents/tdtc9973e.pdf but
is not available since Dec 2001.
www.amue.org Association for the Monetary Union of Europe
(AMUE) was the body that provided the "euro for business" guides
distributed by national business organisations, such as retailers and the
tourist industry.
Links to Euro Links, Euro Portals, Euro Search Engines
uk.fc.yahoo.com/e/emu.html
Yahoo! UK & Ireland have links to Resources · Official
Treasury Euro site · National Changeover Plan · BBC Euro
Centre · Euro Full Coverage (US) · Yahoo! Finance ·
Exchange Rates · Calendar · FAQ
· Glossary · Convert Sterling to Euro
www.searcheurope.com
is a directory of which we edit the
Business_and_Economy/The_Euro category. To search the
directory now, just enter your key words into the text box below and click on "Search Europe!"
dialup.ankara.edu.tr/~kibritci/eurores.html
by Aykut Kibritcioglu in the University of Ankara, Turkey, focuses on European
Integration. (Inactive Aug 2002)
Other commercial sites shown below maintain their own FAQs and sets of
links.
www.crosswater-systems.com/em0000.htm
Gerhard Kenk used to have a EuroPortal page, about
thirty pages of euro-related links with site reviews and his personal recommendation as to
which of them are worth a second look.
www.euroscanner.com was a search engine
for euro links and news organised by country and topic.
www.euro-impact.com
was a
newsletter with a focus on the euro changeover in its political, economic, and
practical business aspects. Now ceased publication.
www.intltreasurer.com International Treasurer
magazine had occasional feature articles on the euro such as "Trust, but
verify euro compliance"
www.euromoney.com EuroMoney
magazine is aimed at institutional investors.
www.finance-now.co.uk (Not found June 2003)
An industry website for finance professionals with links to articles on the euro with a UK focus.
www.creditman.biz/uk/
Resource for Businesses and Credit Professionals has a Links Directory including
euro information.
http://specials.ft.com/euro
The Financial Times EMU page requires a password which you can get by free registration at the FT home page
www.ft.com first.
www.ibeurope.com/
infoBASE EUROPE is a specialist news agency providing daily
updates on developments in European social and industrial
relations policy. The old web site was www.ecu-notes.org
www.meome.de (not found Apr 2002) German Europäische Union portal
www.ccf.com/Espace_Euro/Us/espace_euro/index.html (not found Aug
2002) Euro Web page of Crédit Commercial de France jigsaw puzzle, quiz,
and crosswords. Another of their sites was www.euroentreprise.ccf.fr
(Offline Dec 2001)
www.lesechos.fr/formations/entreprise_globale/articles/article_12_1.htm L'euro : impacts et enjeux.
Avec l'arrivée de l'euro, les entreprises vont devoir concilier les contraintes de conformité à court terme avec une démarche stratégique sur le long terme.
(Les Echos is a daily business newspaper in France)
www.elpais.es/p/d/temas/euro/portada.htm
El camino hacia el euro (newspaper El País).
www.ana.gr/hermes/1998/mar/economic.htm
Athens News Agency article: 'Euro' challenge begins for Greece
Consultants and Technical information:
Patrick O'Beirne's book "Managing the Euro in Information Systems: Strategies for
Successful Changeover" was published by Addison Wesley
1999, ISBN:
0-201-60482-5. The table of contents can be seen on the web at
www.sysmod.com/maneuris.htm
www.basda.org BASDA have developed a specification of "Euro compliance".
www.euro-diagnostic.com
The Euro Diagnostic was available in
French, German, and Italian. In response to
the euro challenge faced by enterprises, IBM and the CSOEC
(Conseil Supérieur de l'Ordre des Experts-comptables) have
created an interactive tool to help you assess the status of
the Euro project in your company.
www.ie.cgey.com
"Ten Steps to Euro Compliance". The Cap Gemini
Ernst & Young euro test examines issues such as ensuring
your third party software is euro-ready and how to change
your in-house systems, as well as euro-training for staff.
www.unisys.com/srvcs/euro/info-business-2.htm (link dead
Feb 2002) The impact of EMU and the euro on business - an in-depth
focus on the UK.
www.auditserve.com Audit
Serve have a free e-mail newsletter which provides articles on the Euro Project, IT
Security and Auditing.
www.ifconnection.de/~jsf/eurostd_en.html (Not found Jan 2005)
jsf's Europage - Standards and Links: Unicode, ISO 8859-X, Code pages,
keyboards, symbols.
www.sme.ie/euro.htm
Julian Clarke's "SME Financial Systems" articles for SMEs on accounting packages and the Euro.
(not found Aug 2002)
www.it-director.com
had occasional articles like '2001:
The Year Of The Euro' (gone Jan 2005)
www.sage.ie/euro/default.asp
The Euro Noticeboard of Sage Software Ireland has PDF
downloads of the euro changeover in their accounting and
payroll packages.
http://www.takefive.ie/euro/t5.htm
Take Five accounting software gives details of their euro
conversion wizard in their online support section.
www.emubase.com/ The EMUbase site is now closed. It
listed
organisations providing business and IT consultancy for Economic and Monetary Union projects and the euro.
http://www.catalogueofcurrencies.com
The Catalogue of Currencies is based in Slovakia. It is a
commercial product that provides detailed information for
the recognition and detection of banknotes and coins.
Financial Services Industries:
(Banks, exchanges, clearing houses, ...)
www.europay.com (Not found June 2003) The euro-Tracker was a monitoring tool for euro cross-border Eurocard-MasterCard activity, based on live data and updated on a monthly basis. It was created to identify the key trends on euro payments made with Eurocard-MasterCard cards.
www.abi.org.uk/TheEuroArea/
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) EMU working party is
looking at the issues for the insurance industry as a whole.
about.reuters.com/euro/
Reuters have
detailed documents regarding the market changes across Europe related to the introduction
of the euro on their web-site
www.sia.com Securities
Industry Association, not much euro information
www.cme.com Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Strategy papers on interest rates, currencies, stock indexes and regulation
Others
http://www.euronotes.co.uk/
Euronotes from Graham
Bishop features "The Capital Markets of
Euroland" and "Britain and Euroland". The triggers for Britain joining EMU. A record of the facts: the market views as reflected in yield curves, measures of press coverage, tracking economic convergence, and informed comment on major events.
www.eurofacts.net (not found June 2003)
Eurofacts from Scan Coin on the physical side of the
euro changeover.
http://members.xoom.com/Datacom_Info/euro.htm
(Offline Dec 2001) background information about the euro with useful`links, an open discussion forum about the coming euro stamps.
www.euroline.be/ The European
giftshop in Brussels. Souvenirs, memorabilia, collectibles, watches, t-shirts,
stationery, etc. The "Perfect European" series of stereotype cartoons
manages to offend all national sensibilities equally! The place to go for that
fun piece of merchandise for your euro campaign.
www.fvo.nl/html/euro/irish/ir-euroshop.htm (not available May 2004) Euro shopping
game with materials to teach shopping. Toy eurocoins and banknotes.
www.rnib.org.uk European Blind Union (EBU) Easing the transition to the euro for visually impaired people
www.captaineuro.com (no such host Apr 2002) For kids ... Captain Euro is a comic strip superhero, who cruises around Europe, with his companions Europa and Lupo, doing good and fighting the evil work of archvillain Dr D. Vider.
www.euro.ecb.int The European Central Bank
have devised a number of games for young people that are fun and educational.
See the national euro campaign office in each country
for specific public and consumer information.
2004-05-01 Enlargement links added
2002-12-07 dead links removed
2002-07-01 Creditman.biz
2002-06-06 EUObserver.com
2001-12-30 FedEE and newsgroups
2001-12-10 Washington Post, CNN,
Bloomberg
2001-11-30 finance-now.co.uk
2001-10-24 MoneyNet.co.uk
2001-10-06
CatalogueOfCurrencies.com
2001-07-27 Unisys UK info, Observer
newspaper
2001-07-13 EC
"What's new" games and studies, dead links pruned.
2001-07-10 UEAPME
2001-07-02 Eurojournaal
cartoons. EC Mediatheque.
2001-06-11 CGEY checklist
2001-04-30 Euaffairs.com
added, Sage & Take 5 software.
2001-04-20 Europa services and
Eurobarometer added, SBP Ireland.
2001-04-17 Europay and
Euronotes added
2001-04-02 dead links removed
2001-03-14 Northern Light
directory added.
2001-02-24 Netmind button
removed.
2001.02.05 National euro links moved to National
Euro Links page to keep document sizes down to a
reasonable download time. News media sites moved here
Feb.12.
The following revisions are
to the orginal web page and may not apply above
2001.01.22 context-europe.org schools site
and euroinformationnetwork.org.uk added. Dead links removed
Jan 28, IAPMEI.pt added
2001.01.04 A number of economics and
newspaper links added, and EuroCalculus
in Austria, a spreadsheet to calculate cash requirements on
changeover.
2000.12.30 dead links removed, odca.ie,
sme.ie, euireland.ie, ypetho.gr added.
2000.12.14 Ministry of
Finance in Greece added, dead links removed.
2000.12.02 some dead links pruned, Italy
correction.
2000.11.18 Added: EuroStat. French
sites: euro-expert, euro-diagnostic
2000.10.28 Redundant http: prefix removed in
visible links. IPF, CCF, Eurocible, Mini-FAQ, added
2000-10-23 Many more links: meome.de, singlecurrency.co.uk,
infoBase Europe, ECSA Paraguay, Euromesco (Portugal), EICs
(Poland, Hungary, Switzerland, UK) About.com guide,
Formula.co.uk & euro-kay.ie Fonts, EuropeanMovement.ie,
DBIC, ICTU, ChambersIreland, and Euroforums added.
2000-10-20 Federation of European Banks,
Open Directory Project, Banksiel, EIC, Institute of European
Affairs
2000-10-10 European Union Bibliography
by Osvaldo Croci and map of Europe
2000-09-30: europe-euro.com and fxtop.com added
2000-09-24 Some dead links removed, some sites added
including Estonia
2000-09-14 Another site for Greece 2000-08-26 Another site for Greece,
another Euro-shop in Brussels.
2000-08-12 Two more sites for Greece, commercial
links reorganised by category.
2000-08-05 Shopping and games links added for some
light relief.
2000-07-26 UACES added to UK links, Contents
list added.
2000-07-14 Austria links updated
2000-06-28 Web ring added, more UK sites.
2000-06-26 Correction to Austria link, dead links removed, more links for Denmark.
2000-06-13 Dead links removed, added Stephen
Gill's thesis on the Irish Diary industry and a link to Simon
Harvey's thesis on the effect on British Business, and a number of commercial
site links.
2000-06-01 New site structure with navigation links
2000-05-12 Non-European links updated, more links tidied
2000-05-01 Split off from the original Euro
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