Costas Simitis, former prime minister of Greece credited as the architect of the country’s joining the common European currency, the euro, died Jan. 5 at a hospital in Corinth. He was 88. State TV ERT announced the death but did not provide further details.

Mourners lined the streets outside Athens’ central cathedral for the state funeral for former Prime Minister Costas Simitis, the architect of Greece’s joining the European Union’s common currency

Costas Simitis, former prime minister of Greece credited as the architect of the country’s joining the common European currency, the euro ... s founding leader, Andreas Papandreou, with whom ...