Pensioners line up to withdraw money from a Bank of Greece branch. They are among those who would suffer the most if Greece returns to the drachma. (Simon Dawson - Bloomberg News) WASHINGTON ...

A parallel currency could be used ... School in the U.K., told ABC News. Greece became a member of the E.U. in 2001 and adopted euro banknotes and coins in January 2002 after a transitional ...

The euro is about to get a new member. What does that mean? - Bulgaria has the green light to become the 21st member of the ...

The drachma meaning "handful" in ancient Greek was the standard silver coin of Greek ... to meet single currency requirements. But with popular support for joining the euro running at ...

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

The oldest known uses of coins as currency, though, can be traced back to ... The drachma continued as a form of currency in modern Greece until 2002, when it was replaced by the Euro. The Lydian ...

The European Commission said on Wednesday Bulgaria can enter the euro zone and become the bloc's 21st member from 2026.

Greece has become the twelfth country to join the European single currency, ditching its own currency ... Greece had hoped to join the euro with the first wave of member countries in January 1999, but ...

Yet until now it has always felt that little bit more exotic than the likes of France, Spain and Greece ... euro. It is the 20th country to join the single currency. Euro banknotes and coins ...