The 2000 UEFA European Championship, or Euro 2000, was the 11th edition of the UEFA European Championship, a competition between the national football teams of Europe held every four years and organised by UEFA, football's governing body in Europe.
The finals of Euro 2000 were co-hosted by Belgium and the Netherlands between June 10 and July 2, 2000. The final tournament was contested by 16 nations. With the exception of the national teams of the hosts, Belgium and the Netherlands, the finalists had to go through a qualifying round to reach the final stage.
The Euro 2000 winner was France, who beat Italy 2-1 in the final after a golden goal by France's Trézéguet.
Belgium and the Netherlands qualified automatically as co-hosts of the Euro 2000 final tournament. The following teams also qualified for the final tournament:
Furthermore, the surge in foreign direct investment (FDI) outflows from the euro area in the late 1990s was accompanied by an equally spectacular rise in FDI inflows, and in 2000, FDI inflows almost matched FDI outflows.
Euro area finance ministers agreed during 1999 to exercise restraint in their comments about the exchange rate, and now generally base their pronouncements on language agreed in common, in co-operation with the ECB.
As the euro kept falling, proponents of central bank intervention on the foreign exchange markets became more vocal, emboldened by the fact that at well over 250 billion euros, the reserves of the Eurosystem are among the highest in the world.
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