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Lithuania embraces the Euro

January 13, 2015

Detail of a pyramid made of 1,000,935 Lithuanian cents is seen on November 29, 2014 in Vilnius, Lithuania. — PETRAS MALUKAS/AFP/Getty Images

Lithuania has taken its old currency, the Litas, out of circulation.

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Lithuania rings in the new year with a new currency

By David Brancaccio

January 01, 2015

A woman celebrates the New Year beneath a sign welcoming the euro Thursday in Vilnius. Lithuania is the last Baltic nation to adopt Europe's single currency, in a bid to boost stability despite fears of inflation and eurozone debt woes. — PETRAS MALUKAS/AFP/Getty Images

It's the 19th state to adopt the euro.

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The rise of Germany's 'euro-skeptics'

October 13, 2014

An election campaign poster of the AfD (Alternative fuer Deutschland, or Alternative for Germany) political party that reads: 'Immigration Requires Clear Rules' hangs from a lamppost. — Sean Gallup/Getty Images

In the Eurozone's strongest economy, support is rising for a party that wants to pull out of the euro.

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"If Spain had the capability of the NSA, they'd do it too."

By Kai Ryssdal

October 28, 2013

Protesters march through downtown Washington D.C. during the Stop Watching Us Rally protesting surveillance by the U.S. National Security Agency, on October 26, 2013, in front of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. The rally began at Union Station and included a march that ended in front of the U.S. Capitol building and speakers such as author Naomi Wolf and former senior National Security Agency senior executive Thomas Drake. — Allison Shelley/Getty Images

The BBC's Tom Burridge takes the temperature of Spaniards in Madrid over allegations of NSA call-monitoring.

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Better economic outlook for Italy after Prime Minister wins confidence vote

October 02, 2013

Interior Minister Angelino Alfano (R) speaks with Italy's Prime Minister Enrico Letta on October 2, 2013 at the Senate where Letta delivered a speech before today's confidence vote at the Parliament. — FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images)

Current Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta survived a confidence vote by a wide margin on Wednesday.

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Spain wants to move back an hour to help pull its economy out of recession

By Sabri Ben-Achour

October 01, 2013

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Spain is hoping a little time travel will help its economic woes, but will it work?

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In Germany, elections loom and doubts about the eurozone

September 20, 2013

Hugh Bronson, AfD candidate in Sunday's election, says "Exit from the eurozone will be expensive. Staying in will be deadly." — Stephen Beard

On Sunday, German voters will go to the polls. Victory for Chancellor Angela Merkel seems certain. One unpredictable element, however, is the fate of a party that wants to exclude the Eurozone's economically struggling members from the bloc.

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The global echos of America's financial mess

September 13, 2013

A bank customer holds a handful of Icelandic crowns from an ATM. — Pall Stefansson/Getty Images

The effects of the 2008 financial crisis hit even disparate economies like Ireland, Iceland and Latvia.

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