On January 1st 2011, which country became the 17th Eurozone country, when it adopted the Euro as its currency?
5 euro note founded on 1 January 1999, when it became the currency of over 300 million people in Europe. For the first three years of its existence it was an invisible currency, only used in accountancy. Euro cash was not introduced until 1 January 2002, when it replaced the national banknotes and coins of the countries in eurozone 12, such as the Irish pound and the Austrian schilling. Slovenia joined the Eurozone in 2007, Cyprus and Malta in 2008, Slovakia in 2009, Estonia in 2011 and Latvia on 1 January 2014. The changeover period during which the former currencies' notes and coins
Withdrawal from the Eurozone from the Eurozone, the economic region formed by those countries in the European Union that use the euro as their national currency. Speculation followed about other countries as well, such as Italy, withdrawing from the Eurozone, with economist Nuriel Roubini submitting that "Italy may, like other periphery countries [of the Eurozone], need to exit the euro and go back to a national currency, thus triggering an effective break-up of the Eurozone." As of July 2018, no country has withdrawn from the Eurozone. The prevailing legal opinion is that there is no provision in any European Union treaty for an exit