Since the adoption of the euro by Slovenia on 1 January 2007, the euro area comprises 13 member states and counts a population of more than 315 million who share the single currency and benefit from the euro.

This publication, issued jointly by the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union and the European Commission, brings together, in the format of a handy booklet, the core legal and political texts regulating the European monetary union and the euro.