At the stroke of 12 hours, the euro area is again what grown: Lithuania is the 19th EU country adopted the euro . Until yesterday, the litas, the national currency.
The euro zone has as of today some 337 million people. Lithuania had been since 2004 a member of the EU, the country hopes to have more political influence by introducing the euro.
“We are now at a table where nineteen countries to clarify the most important questions of the euro zone, ” said Finance Minister Rimantas ŠADŽIUS Wednesday at the Lithuanian radio. According to a poll is a small majority of 53 percent of Lithuanians for introduction of the euro.
RTL News / Reuters
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