European monetary integration, receiving euro in Slovakia

The topic of this work is european monetary integration and receiving european currency euro in Slovakia. First part of this work is focused to compare european monetary union with theory of optimum currency areas. In this part I compare indicators, which the countries engaged to the european monetary union should realize, with their reality. In the second part the main idea is history of the european monetary union from the beginign of the second half of the twentieth century to the present. In the last part I describe receiving euro in Slovakia and development statistics indicators before and after receiving. Some of these indicators I compare with indicators from the Czech republic. On the last, I add classification and opinions to receiving euro in Slovakia from different subjects, e.g. from european commission and specialists to this problems.