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''The euro.''
1.  


The Euro zone is the collective name for the 19 countries adopting European Monetary Union (EMU) in full.
The ability of an entity to pay its liabilities as they fall due, in the short, medium and longer term.
Sometimes written 'Eurozone', 'eurozone' or 'Euro-zone'.


More formally known as the 'euro area' and more informally as 'euroland'.


2.


The 19 countries in the euro area are:
Under UK law, the ability of a company - on a balance of probabilities - to meet all of its existing, prospective and contingent liabilities, taking account of future costs and of future interest obligations.


Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain.
In making this assessment, future income and future asset valuations are also taken into account.




The eight European Union (EU) countries which are not in the euro area are:
3. ''Pensions.''


Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Sweden.
The extent to which the assets of a defined benefit pension scheme are sufficient to meet the liabilities and thus closely related to funding level.  


 
Liabilities, and thus solvency, may be calculated on a discontinuance or a going concern basis for the scheme concerned.
====Brexit====
A referendum in the UK in June 2016 resulted in a vote for the UK to begin the process of leaving the EU.  




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Bank supervision]]
* [[Discontinuance]]
* [[Brexit]]
* [[Insolvency]]
* [[Central bank]]
* [[Liquidity]]
* [[Core countries]]
* [[ESCB]]
* [[Eurobond]]
* [[European Central Bank]]
* [[European Financial Stability Facility]]
* [[European Monetary Union]]
* [[European Union]]
* [[Eurosystem]]
* [[Grexit]]
* [[Periphery countries]]
 
 
 
==== Currencies of EU countries not in the euro area ====
* [[BGN]]
* [[HRK]]
* [[CZK]]
* [[DKK]]
* [[HUF]]
* [[PLN]]
* [[RON]]
* [[SEK]]
* [[GBP]]
 
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Revision as of 09:35, 29 May 2013

1.

The ability of an entity to pay its liabilities as they fall due, in the short, medium and longer term.


2.

Under UK law, the ability of a company - on a balance of probabilities - to meet all of its existing, prospective and contingent liabilities, taking account of future costs and of future interest obligations.

In making this assessment, future income and future asset valuations are also taken into account.


3. Pensions.

The extent to which the assets of a defined benefit pension scheme are sufficient to meet the liabilities and thus closely related to funding level.

Liabilities, and thus solvency, may be calculated on a discontinuance or a going concern basis for the scheme concerned.


See also