Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Lithuania also pays starting today with the euro – AD.nl

Lithuania also pays starting today with the euro – AD.nl

Edited by: Editorial
1-1-15 – 01:00 Source: Reuters

Lithuania today performs as the 19th EU country euro in. Yesterday was the last day that nearly 3 million people in the Baltic country used as a national currency, the litas. The Baltic countries Estonia and Latvia were already in respectively 2011 and 2014 part of the eurozone, which now counts some 337 million people.



Lithuania, a former Soviet republic

that is a member of the EU since 2004, hopes the introduction of the euro on more political influence. “We are now at a table where nineteen countries to clarify the most important questions of the eurozone,” said Finance Minister Rimantas ŠADŽIUS on the Lithuanian radio.

According to a recent poll, a small majority of 53 percent of the Lithuanians for introduction of the euro.

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