The French are in their fifth presidential election since the creation of the European currency.
Should we retain the date of January 1, 1999, which constitutes the real launch of the euro and of a single monetary policy under the aegis of the European Central Bank?
Should we focus on January 1, 2002, the emblematic moment of the appearance of coins and banknotes?
Regardless, the very existence of the euro has been the subject of debate in every election campaign.
It was intense in 2002, with the presence of Jean-Marie Le Pen in the second round, a little less in 2007 and in 2012, when the National Front was behind.
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Paradoxically, the euro issue became very divisive again in 2017, as if time failed to erase the fractures of the 1992 Maastricht referendum, when the French voted by a very narrow majority in favor of the single currency project. .
Five years ago, both Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marine Le Pen campaigned to denounce the euro ...
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