This is a list ofcentral banks and currencies ofEurope.
The currency of theeuro area is theeuro, and itscentral bank is theEuropean Central Bank. Each country of the area has aNational Central Bank that participates in the Eurosystem.
FourEuropean microstates participate in the euro area through monetary agreements with the EU, granting them the rights to produce limited quantities of euro coins with their own design on the national side, but not to issue euro banknotes. These countries' financial authorities, whether named central banks or not, are primarilysupervisory authorities.
Two additional countries have adopted the euro unilaterally, and are not technically part of the euro area even though they use the euro as their currency.[1]