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Eurozone (euro area) |header6 = Governance |label7 = Political control |data7 = Eurogroup |label8 = Group president |data8 = Jeroen Dijsselbloem |label9 = Issuing authority |data9 = European Central Bank |label10 = ECB president |data10 = Mario Draghi |header11 = Statistics |label12 = Population (2015) |data12 = 338,335,120〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Total population as of 1 January )〕 |label13 = GDP (2014) |data13 = €10.1 trillion〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gross domestic product at market prices )〕 |label14 = Interest rate |data14 = 0.05%〔 |label15 = Inflation |data15 = 1.6%〔(HICP – all items – annual average inflation rate ) Eurostat〕 |label16 = Unemployment |data16 = 11.0%〔, Eurostat〕 }} The eurozone (), officially called the euro area,〔 (The euro area ), European Central Bank〕 is a monetary union of 19 of the 28 European Union (EU) member states which have adopted the euro (€) as their common currency and sole legal tender. The other nine members of the European Union continue to use their own national currencies. The eurozone consists of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain. Other EU states (except for Denmark and the United Kingdom) are obliged to join once they meet the criteria to do so.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Who can join and when? )〕 No state has left, and there are no provisions to do so or to be expelled. Andorra, Monaco, San Marino, and Vatican City have formal agreements with the EU to use the euro as their official currency and issue their own coins.〔 Kosovo and Montenegro have adopted the euro unilaterally,〔 but these countries do not officially form part of the eurozone and do not have representation in the European Central Bank (ECB) or in the Eurogroup.〔A (glossary ) issued by the ECB defines "euro area", without mention of Monaco, San Marino, or the Vatican.〕 The ECB, which is governed by a president and a board of the heads of national central banks, sets the monetary policy of the zone. The principal task of the ECB is to keep inflation under control. Though there is no common representation, governance or fiscal policy for the currency union, some co-operation does take place through the Eurogroup, which makes political decisions regarding the eurozone and the euro. The Eurogroup is composed of the finance ministers of eurozone states, but in emergencies, national leaders also form the Eurogroup. Since the financial crisis of 2007–08, the eurozone has established and used provisions for granting emergency loans to member states in return for the enactment of economic reforms. The eurozone has also enacted some limited fiscal integration, for example in peer review of each other's national budgets. The issue is political and in a state of flux in terms of what further provisions will be agreed for eurozone reform. ==Member states== In 1998 eleven member states of the European Union had met the euro convergence criteria, and the eurozone came into existence with the official launch of the euro (alongside national currencies) on 1 January 1999. Greece qualified in 2000 and was admitted on 1 January 2001 before physical notes and coins were introduced on 1 January 2002 replacing all national currencies. Between 2007 and 2015, seven new states acceded. The 2012 data above of eurozone states were published by World Bank in May 2014. Latvia and Lithuania were not in the eurozone in 2012. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eurozone」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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