The Greek one-euro coin can rightly claim that it has roots planted deep in history with a story longer than two millennia.

If Greece was to default it would effectively spell the end of the Euro as a currency, according to Royal Bank of Scotland's (RBS) strategist and chief European economist Jacques Cailloux.

Costas Simitis, a Prime Minister of Greece from 1996 to 2004 and the architect of the country’s joining the common European currency, the euro, has died at 88, state TV ERT reports.(AP Photo/Thanassis ...

Greece’s Ministry of National Economy and ... holders can redeem them at any time and at the nominal value of the currency to which the tokens refer. Issuers are required also to inform ...

ATHENS (Reuters) -Former Greek prime minister Costas Simitis, who led the country into the European Union's single currency in 2001, died on Sunday aged 88 at his summer house in the Peloponnese.

By Alan Cowell Costas Simitis, a former prime minister of Greece who oversaw his country’s entry into the euro single currency and its uneven preparations for the 2004 Olympic Games, died on Sunday.