On 3 May 2000, in connection with the third stage of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), the European Commission publishes a report in which it outlines the efforts to achieve economic convergence made by Greece and Sweden, which are not among the 11 European Union Member States to have adopted the single European currency on 1 January 1999.

On 28 October 1997, the British left-wing newspaper The Guardian describes the attitude of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, to UK adoption of the single European currency.

On 23 February 1999, in London, Tony Blair, British Prime Minister, sets out the United Kingdom’s position on the possible adoption of the single European currency.

On 13 June 2003, the French weekly publication Le Point outlines the reasons which are leading the United Kingdom to put off its possible accession to the euro zone against the backdrop of disagreement between Tony Blair, Prime Minister, and Gordon Brown, his Chancellor of the Exchequer.

On 27 October 1997, Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer, describes the British Government’s position on the third stage of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and on the United Kingdom’s possible adoption of the euro.

On 18 January 2000, Bodil Nyboe Andersen, Governor of the National Bank of Denmark, assesses the introduction of the euro in ten European Union Member States and argues in favour of Denmark's adoption of the single currency.

On 30 September 2000, in the French daily newspaper Le Figaro, Nicole Fontaine, President of the European Parliament, comments on the victory of the ‘No' vote in the referendum on the adoption of the single currency, held the previous day in Denmark, and emphasises the advantages of the euro.

In January 2002, Nils Gottfries, Professor of Economics at Uppsala University and former member of the Swedish Commission on Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), describes the economic and political reasons for Sweden’s decision not to adopt the euro.

On 4 September 2003, ten days after the national referendum on the adoption of the single currency, Lars Heikensten, Governor of the Central Bank of Sweden, gives an address in Stockholm on the challenges of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU).

On 19 September 2003, the French weekly news magazine Le Point comments on the reasons, in particular the economic, social and cultural reasons, which may explain the victory of the ‘No’ vote, by 56.1 %, in the referendum held on 14 September in Sweden on the country’s adoption of the single European currency.

On 25 September 2003, Anders Melbourn, Director of the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (SIIA), grants an interview to the French weekly journal Le Nouvel Observateur, during which he comments on the negative result of the referendum on the country's adoption of the single currency, held on 14 September 2003 in Sweden.