Economy of Austria As a member of the economic and monetary union of the European Union (EMU), Austria's economy is closely integrated with other EU member countries, especially with Germany. On 1 January 1999, Austria introduced the new Euro currency for accounting purposes. In January 2002, Euro notes and coins were introduced, replacing those of the Austrian schilling. In Austria, Euros appear as 1999, however all Austrian euro coins introduced in 2002 have this year on it; unlike other countries of the Eurozone where mint year is minted in the coin. Eight different designs, one per face value, were selected for the Austrian
Language and the euro for "Europe". In Leonese, a language spoken in the Spanish provinces of León and Zamora, the word for "euro" is "euru", the plural being "euros". In Lithuanian the euro and cent are called "euras" () and "centas" () (in common language usually "eurocentas", to distinguish from the cents of the former Lithuanian currency, "litas"), while plural forms are "eurai" and "centai" ("eurocentai"). The Lithuanian language routinely adapts foreign words by re-spelling them according to Lithuanian phonetic rules and adding standardised endings, resulting in words like "kompiuteris" or "Tonis Bleiras". In Luxembourgish the Euro is officially called "Euro" (pronounced "oi-ro"), both