Croatia officaly joins Eurozone

[Tooting Carmen]

GDP or PPP per capita are not only indicators. Household income is very important one as well. And some others.
Guess what, countries that joined last and had less years to benefit are not on same level as those that joined sooner. Big surprise.

I estimate Croatia lost billions when our EU entry was delayed for basically decade due to country like Slovenia veto and some other things.

Why did Slovenia veto it? And wouldn't you do the same if Serbia or Bosnia tried to join?

[Hasien]

What do you mean?

Sorry I thought It was about Nato.

[Jana]

Why did Slovenia veto it?

a) because they are cunts
b) because of unsolved border dispute

And wouldn't you do the same if Serbia or Bosnia tried to join?

We want Bosnia to join due to Bosnian Croats. They just can't since country is mess. Serbia isn't looking to join EU, most of their population is against it.

[Zohor]

Not really. Princes are already on Euro level and transactions in Croatia are done in Euros for years.



Salaries already grew and inflation is high, and especially due to that joining much larger zone is necessary.
as of today


989 EUR is current average salary



I didn't mean that. Croatian currency is pegged to Euro for decades and exists only on paper. But we can't be enough competitive or get affordable loans because we officially didn't have Euro, until now.


We never could. Croatia isn't Hungary and never had fiscal independence but always strictly followed ECB, thus adopting Euro is only logical solution.



You have a nationalistic government that's often not in line with Brussels so I doubt you will.



Yes, it will make it better and make faster progress. I want as deep integration as possible and more and more money taken from EU.
We had enough being bottom of EU.

Croatia is a small country, some autonomy is a pipe dream I already saw in case of Hungary what it means when EU closes the pipe.
Few years ago Hungary was much better place than Croatia is and in last two years situation reversed.

Croatia is finally going forward, I'm rather satisfied.

Ok, some of the points mentioned by you definitely change the situation, especially the one with government following the ECB so this argument totally lost meaning. With such assumption that Euro is already widespread the most important thing seems to be possibility of taking more loans, so from now on I can only wish you to invest the money from loans wisely.

[Norse-Gael]

Playing with the big boy's now, welcome!

[Jana]

Moody's Raises Croatia's Ratings to Baa2, With Stable Outlook

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/mo...k-271657922594

Good news because better ranking >>> more foreign investments and cheaper loans.