Croatia has set January 1, 2023, as the date on which it will make the euro its national currency, with Bulgaria set to follow a year later. But how realistic are these deadlines? In July 2020, Bulgaria and Croatia were together admitted to the...
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Estonia is playing a leading role in the development of a digital euro, and Poland is eyeing the possibility of a digital złoty. But both are some way behind...
Montenegro, which unilaterally adopted the euro in 2002, might – somewhat ironically – have to introduce its own currency before it can join the European...
Croatia plans to put Tesla on its euro coins and enrages Serbia with the idea. Croatia’s central bank said it would put Nikola Tesla on its future 50, 20 and 10...
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
Central Europe The European Commission has warned Poland it could face fines if it fails to comply with two decisions by the European Court of Justice over judicial...
Not one of the seven countries legally committed to adopting the euro (Bulgaria, Czechia, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Sweden) currently meet all the...
On April 10, the euro group agreed on a 500 billion euros rescue package that made the Bulgarian government regret that it had decided to delay its plans to join the...
Unlike Bulgaria and Croatia – both of which reiterated their desire to join the eurozone as quickly as possible this week – Hungary continues to resist the...
The forint, Hungary’s national currency, hit a record low against the euro on August 29, falling to 331.9. The currency also hit 300 against the US dollar, marking a two...
Bulgaria hopes to join the the ERM-2 exchange rate mechanism — the precursor to eurozone membership — before the end of 2019. Previously, the Balkan country – an...
Hungarian finance minister Mihály Varga has said that the country’s economy will grow by at least by four per cent in the coming years, with Hungary’s public debt...
