Common Currency
Common Currency and Europe
There is an entry on common currency in the European legal encyclopedia.
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- Entry “Common Currency” in the work “A Concise Encyclopedia of the European Union from Aachen to Zollverein”, by Rodney Leach (Profile Books; London)
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