Lithuania adopts the euro since this January 1 – BBC

Lithuania adopts the euro since this January 1 – BBC

• January 1, 2015

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The country is now the 19th member of the eurozone.

Lithuania became the last Thursday in the Baltic countries to adopt the euro.

The coin replace the litas, the old drive to continue being accepted for the next two weeks.

President Dalia Grybauskaite said that adopting the euro was a symbol of a deeper political and economic integration with the West.

“This is a symbolic not only for Lithuania, but also for the euro area itself, which is stable, attractive and open to new members now,” he said in a statement Vice President of the EC in charge of Euro and Dialogue Social, Valdis Dombrovskis.

Lithuania was the first former Soviet republic to secede from Moscow and joined the European Union and NATO in 2004.

On Thursday 15th anniversary of the launch are met Forex in 1999.