The currency was brought in as a noncash monetary unit in 1999, with currency notes and coins appearing in countries in 2002.

Europe has the money and the artillery shells, but key U.S. capabilities like operational intelligence and air defense would ...

Albania is emerging as a diplomatic hub in the Western Balkans region for efforts aimed at countering Russian influence, a ...

The European People's Party withdrew support for the report at the last minute, leaving MEP author Thomas Waitz denouncing ...

Bulgaria has the green light to join the euro next year and become the 21st member of the European Union's currency union ...

Eurogroup President Paschal Donohoe issued a statement on today’s positive assessment of Bulgaria’s fulfilment of the criteria for joining the euro in the Convergence Reports published by the European ...

The European Parliament said on Wednesday its foreign affairs committee called on Albania to intensify judicial, ...

The euro zone is set to continue its eastward expansion after Bulgaria was deemed ready to become the currency bloc’s 21st ...

Growing up in Kukes in northern Albania, one of the poorest places in Europe, Gezim Hilaj watched as most of the young people ...

The Foreign Affairs Committee has recognised Albania’s strong commitment to European Union (EU) accession in a report adopted ...