• The euro convergence criteria (also known as the Maastricht criteria) are the criteria European Union member states are required to meet to enter the third...
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    country became required to replace the leu with the euro once it meets all four euro convergence criteria, as stated in article 140 of the Treaty on the Functioning...
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    membership obliged it to join the eurozone once it fulfilled the euro convergence criteria. Prior to Croatian entry to the EU on 1 July 2013, Boris Vujčić...
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    Republic is bound to adopt the euro in the future and to join the eurozone once it has satisfied the euro convergence criteria by the Treaty of Accession...
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    euro in 2006. The convergence progress for the newly acceded EU member states is supported and evaluated by the yearly submission of the "Convergence...
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    to us." The Polish government planned to comply with all the Euro convergence criteria by 2015. In autumn 2012, the Monetary Policy Council of the Polish...
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    treaty. The transition will occur once the country meets all the euro convergence criteria; it currently meets three of the five. As the lev was fixed to...
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    although all but Denmark are obliged to join once they meet the euro convergence criteria. Among non-EU member states, Andorra, Monaco, San Marino, and...
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    obliges most EU member states to adopt the euro upon meeting certain monetary and budgetary convergence criteria, although not all participating states have...
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    also have to meet the EU's economic convergence criteria (Maastricht criteria) before being allowed to adopt the euro; which at that time the UK's annual...
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    with the euro on 1 January 2014, after a European Union (EU) assessment in June 2013 asserted that the country had met all convergence criteria necessary...
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    "Conditions for joining the euro area: convergence criteria". European Council. Retrieved 2020-03-19. "Convergence criteria". European Council. Retrieved...
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    denied approval to adopt the euro after requesting a convergence check. In December 2006, the government approved a new convergence plan, which pushed the expected...
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    from the ECB convergence report of June 2013. Sweden, Latvia and Ireland were the reference states. Reference values from the ECB convergence report of June...
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    competitive pressure and market forces within the Union. The Euro convergence criteria and European Exchange Rate Mechanism have been used to prepare...
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    However, the last of the five economic convergence criteria, which need to be complied with in order to qualify for euro adoption, is the exchange rate stability...
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    finance ministers' meeting in July 2008. Slovakia fulfilled the euro convergence criteria. At 2.2%, Slovakia's twelve-month inflation was well below the...
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    to adopt the euro as its official currency. As such, the third stage is largely synonymous with the eurozone. The euro convergence criteria are the set...
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    institutions' unwillingness to deviate from a policy of euro adoption only after five Euro convergence criteria have been met. In 2011 the Bulgarian finance minister...
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    financial leverage of an economy.[citation needed] One of the Euro convergence criteria was that government debt-to-GDP should be below 60%. The World...
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    treaty has since obliged it to adopt the euro once the country is found to comply with all the convergence criteria. However, one of the requirements for...
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    The euro is the most widely used currency in the EU. Since 1992, the Maastricht Treaty sets out rigid economic and fiscal convergence criteria for the...
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    future and to join the Eurozone once they have satisfied the euro convergence criteria by the Treaty of Accession since they joined the EU. If counted...
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    spending and inflation in a bid to ensure that Portugal met the Euro convergence criteria by the end of the decade, as well as increasing rates of participation...
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    from the ECB convergence report of June 2013. Sweden, Latvia and Ireland were the reference states. Reference values from the ECB convergence report of June...
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    19 September 2015. Retrieved 31 October 2009. "Introducing the Euro: convergence criteria". Europa.eu. 7 December 2006. Retrieved 31 October 2009. "IMF...
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  • levels as set out in the Euro convergence criteria. On 9 December 2011 at the European Council meeting, all 17 members of the euro zone and six states that...
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  • these self-imposed criteria the UK would also have had to have met the European Union's economic convergence criteria ("Maastricht criteria") before being...
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    economic imbalances and meet the nominal convergence criteria. Slovenian euro coins "Slovenia and the euro". European Commission. Retrieved 2023-11-28...
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    States adopting the euro, to ensure that they did not only meet the Maastricht convergence criteria at the time of adopting the euro but kept on complying...
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