European Central Bank

The official exchange rates for the Euro are published by the European Central Bank (ECB), which is the Bank that administers the monetary policy within the European Union. The publication is a daily report of 30 currency values that can be accessed as a normal web page and also in xml format that is usually updated around 16:00 Central Europe Time ( CET ) on every working day.

EUR Historical Series

The ECB publishes a historical file starting from 1999.01.04 until present. This file is fully available from the application’s calendar and can be used to extract desired exchange rates month by month. Please, keep in mind that the more you go back in time, more chances that some currencies couldn’t get retrieved, just because they simply didn’t exist.

The plug-in for the ECB is included by default with foxer currency calculator, therefore making all the latest and historical euro exchange rates available to users.

Economic relevance

The European Union is the 2^nd largest economy in the world, between the United States of America and China, comprising a single market across the territory of all its 28 member countries that represents 447 million citizens.

From this union, 20 eurozone members have adopted the euro (€) as their primary currency: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain.

As a result, nowadays the euro is the second largest reserve currency as well as the second most traded currency in the world after the USD.

Links

• European Central Bank website
• Daily spot update page