Is it true that everyone in the EU has to spell euro the same way?

Question

except for Greece?

What about in Bulgaria with the cyrillian alphabet?

Answer 1

€ the euro sign.

Answer 2

€ the euro sign

Answer 3

No, it's not true, at least not according to the official EU Community Legislative Acts. It's already being used in different spellings, for ex. it's capitalized in German 'Euro', but not in other languages. Other than that, there's the official form of 'euron' in Swedish, when referring to currency, and in Maltese and Welsh it's 'ewro'. In Slovene it's 'evro'. In Hungarian: euró. There's been much upheaval about the plural form as well, as the EU officials were trying to impose the same form for both singular and plural, which is just contrary to the linguistic principles. Not to mention what it does to languages such as Latvian and Estonian. It's very unlikely that they'll be able to push Bulgaria to adopt the Roman script. It's in direct opposition to so many claims that linguistic diversity is encouraged, protected and promoted in the EU.

Check the table for more info:

http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/euro...

Answer 4

When Bulgaria joins the currency the ECB will presumably take into account Bulgaria's Cyrillic alphabet like it took into account the Greek alphabet.  But in countries using the Roman alphabet Euro has to be spelt the same way to avoid any confusion.

Answer 5

EU countries must abide by the rules.  Thus, they must spell the euro the same way.