Article: No room for complacency as we prepare for euro invasion

Article: Euro, UK Pound Hit All-Time Lows
AP Online;  August 29, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... AP Business Writer AP Online 08-29-2000 Euro, UK Pound Hit All-Time Lows NEW YORK (AP) -- The euro and the British pound plunged against the ... German and French officials Tuesday, the euro dipped sharply, dragging also the British ...

Article: Complacency rules over the euro; UK firms `not ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  March 26, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... are content that the UK will not be in the first ... sufficiently harmonised for the euro to be a success. Most ... per cent ) believe that UK-based foreign multinationals will operate in euros and will expect their ... customers decide to make the euro their operating currency ...

Article: Get ready for the euro, UK stores told
Evening News - Scotland;  December 27, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... plan to accept euros for payment once ... minister about the euro's launch - are ... campaign to bring the UK into the euro by ... their minds on the euro on the practical ... into joining the euro." As well as urging stores to accept euros, Mr Hain warned that the UK ...

Article: Will Nissan build in a non-euro UK?(Business)
The Birmingham Post (England);  November 16, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... pound's strength against the euro and had warned that the Micra ... people. On the sidelines of a euro symposium in Tokyo, Thierry ... Mundell told the launch of the UK chapter of Canadians in Europe. The benefits of joining after euro notes and coins are brought in ...

Article: VOTERS `WILL BACK EURO' UK pro--group's referendum ...
Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England);  January 2, 2003 ;     521 words ... ... group claimed today. The pro-euro Britain in Europe pressure group ... campaigns body, predicts the UK will hold a referendum on joining the euro next year and that voters will ... today when Denmark, one of the UK's fellow opt-out states ...

Article: Economic Tests Decisive for Joining Euro: UK ...
Xinhua News Agency;  June 27, 2002 ;     443 words ... ... whether Britain should join the euro. At a meeting on Wednesday night ... for the City, and whether the UK economy was marching in step ... as less enthusiastic about the euro than Prime Minster Tony Blair ... deciding whether to enter the euro would be the "biggest peacetime ...

Article: British business forced to adopt euro The UK may ...
The Independent - London;  March 15, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... supply needs in euros, without having ... involved in non-euro contracts ... bad news for UK companies at ... fears that the euro will be weak ... is priced in euros?" said John ... Management. "The UK may say it ... pound and the euro will undermine ... the switch to euros to save ...