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The exchange rate between the euro and the United States dollar drops to 0.9928, the lowest in 20 years.
2022-08-22

President Emmanuel Macron announces a €30 billion plan to re-industrialize France, in order to address what he called "a kind of growth deficit" and make France reclaim its title as a "global leader in innovation and research".
2021-10-12

GlaxoSmithKline and the German biotech firm CureVac sign an agreement worth 150 million euros ($180.7 million) to develop a vaccine to counter many variants of SARS-CoV-2. The vaccine, which is subject to regulatory approval, is expected to be introduced in 2022.
2021-02-3

Former Prime Minister of France François Fillon and his wife Penelope are found guilty in a fake jobs case, in which Penelope was paid €1.156 million for work she did not do as a parliamentary aide. François is sentenced to five years in prison, three of them suspended, and is barred from office for ten years; Penelope will also serve a three year suspended sentence.
2020-06-29

Mixed martial artist Conor McGregor is arrested in Miami Beach, Florida, on charges of robbery and criminal mischief.
2019-03-11

Irish mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor appears in court and is released on bail after being charged with assault and criminal mischief.
2018-04-6

An Italian court orders former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to stand trial on April 4 on charges of allegedly bribing witnesses with €10 million (US$11 million) in order to silence them over accusations he paid for sex with young women.
2017-01-28

The Swiss franc to euro exchange rate jumps by 30% immediately following a Swiss National Bank announcement. The bank will abandon its three-year-old cap on the swiss franc's value against the euro as well as lower the interest rate on sight deposits (instant access accounts) to -0.75% (the negative number meaning that the depositor has to pay the bank 0.75% per year to hold the depositor's money).
2015-01-15

Estonia, one of the Baltic republics of the former Soviet Union, adopts the euro as its official currency, becoming the 17th country to do so.
2010-12-31

Italian authorities seize 23 million euro (approximately US$30 million) from a Vatican bank account in a money laundering probe.
2010-09-21