Eurozone
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- proper noun
- /ˈjʊəroʊzoʊn/
- The situation in the Eurozone started with the sovereign debt crisis.
- Eurozone countries
- leave the Eurozone
- Eurozone crisis
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Watch on YouTubeFirst, the problems in the Eurozone are driving fundamental change in Europe.
- First, the problems in the Eurozone are driving fundamental change in Europe.
- That was the mistake made by some eurozone countries we have now been battling for years.
- Last year, Germany's economy was the weakest of its large eurozone peers.
- The situation in the Eurozone started with the sovereign debt crisis.
- Because the European Union and the Eurozone are not the same thing and those of us who are in the EU but outside the eurozone need that accepted.
- Now, we have consistently seen the European, the Eurozone essentially grow a lot slower than the United States.
- And either our debt issues or the eurozone issues could spill out in ways that are certainly hard to predict hopefully won't.
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The economies within the eurozone have given up their national currencies.
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Yet there is no mechanism by which the EU, or even the Eurozone, can act as one.
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Looking ahead, the eurozone is likely to continue with almost all its current members.
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First, the problems in the Eurozone are driving fundamental change in Europe.
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But they gave up that option when they joined the eurozone.
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The latter problem has been evident in the Eurozone financial crisis.
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The alternative is for Greece to leave the eurozone and return to its own currency.
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The Europeans, despite their success in creating the Eurozone, were unable to unite at the international level.
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The austerity stemming from the ongoing debt crisis in the Eurozone has only made matters worse.
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Economic growth in the 19 nations that make up the Eurozone slowed in the second quarter.
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Etymology
Eurozone is made from euro (the shared money named for Europe) and zone (an 'area'), so it literally means the 'area' where countries use the 'euro'.