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Croatia adopted the euro as its currency on 1 January 2023, becoming the 20th member state of the eurozone.A fixed conversion rate was set at €1 = kn 7.5345 [1]. Croatia's previous currency, the kuna (Croatian for marten), used the euro (and prior to that one of the euro's major predecessors, the German mark or Deutsche Mark) as its main reference since its creation in 1994, and a long-held ...
The euro area, [8] commonly called the eurozone (EZ), is a currency union of 20 member states of the European Union (EU) that have adopted the euro as their primary currency and sole legal tender, and have thus fully implemented EMU policies. The 20 eurozone members are:
The accession of Croatia to the European Union was completed in 2013. Croatia first hosted the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the first half of 2020. The country adopted the euro as its currency and joined the Schengen Area in 2023. [1]
The enlargement of the eurozone is an ongoing process within the European Union (EU).All member states of the European Union, except Denmark which negotiated an opt-out from the provisions, are obliged to adopt the euro as their sole currency once they meet the criteria, which include: complying with the debt and deficit criteria outlined by the Stability and Growth Pact, keeping inflation and ...
Croatia signs the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA). 2003-02-21: Formal application for membership submitted. 2003-10-09: Croatia submits answers to the commission's Questionnaire. 2004-04-20: European Commission replies to the answers with a positive opinion (Avis). 2004-06-18: Croatia receives official candidate status. 2004-12-20
On 16–17 June 1997, the European Council decides at Amsterdam to adopt the Stability and Growth Pact, designed to ensure budgetary discipline after creation of the euro, and a new exchange rate mechanism (ERM II) is set up to provide stability above the euro and the national currencies of countries that haven't yet entered the eurozone.
5 not in ERM II, but obliged to join the eurozone on meeting the convergence criteria (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Sweden) Non–EU member states 4 using the euro with a monetary agreement ( Andorra , Monaco , San Marino , and Vatican City )
The OCTs have been explicitly invited by the EU treaty to join the EU-OCT Association (OCTA). [3] They were listed in the Article 198 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union , which aside from inviting them to join OCTA, also provided them the opportunity to opt into EU provisions on the freedom of movement for workers [ 18 ] and ...