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With the euro all the problems of changing currency within Europe are gone (give a few years for the new countries, of whom it seems Hungary shall be the last possibly to get the Euro by 2010...). This makes life easier for the average traveler, but you need to sacrifice some of your national characteristics to do so.
The euro does make Europe a stronger economic power and gives an easier means to compare it to the US or Japan on an economic level as comparing the individual strengths of European currencies with the $ was a bit tedious.
Yet, especially in France you see people who are having trouble getting over to the new system of the € and still think a lot in Francs. But on the long term as the new generation grows up with the euro these problems should disappear.
So I voted yes, because IMO the longterm benefits of the € outweigh the possible short term problems. I might be wrong, as I'm not a EU or economics specialist, and this is just my point of view.
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