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[53] [54] As a result, Greeks have lost about 40% of their purchasing power since the start of the crisis, [55] they spend 40% less on goods and services, [56] and the seasonal adjusted unemployment rate grew from 7.5% in September 2008 to a record high of 27.9% in June 2013, [57] while the youth unemployment rate rose from 22.0% to as high as 62%.
However, in June 2023 the referendum was rejected by Bulgaria's parliament with 98 votes against, 46 abstentions and 68 votes in favour. [54] [55] On 26 July 2023, the newly formed Bulgarian government adopted a programme which stated that the switch to the euro in January 2025 is one of the main government priorities.
The Euro Interbank Offered Rate (Euribor) is a daily reference rate, published by the European Money Markets Institute, [1] based on the averaged interest rates at which Eurozone banks borrow unsecured funds from counterparties in the euro wholesale money market (or interbank market). Prior to 2015, the rate was published by the European ...
The dollar index, which measures the currency against a basket of six others, was last up 0.375% at 106.95, a day after a separate U.S. inflation reading cemented bets for a rate cut from the ...
Croatia adopted the euro as its currency on 1 January 2023, becoming the 20th member state of the eurozone.A fixed conversion rate was set at €1 = kn 7.5345 [1]. Croatia's previous currency, the kuna (Croatian for marten), used the euro (and prior to that one of the euro's major predecessors, the German mark or Deutsche Mark) as its main reference since its creation in 1994, and a long-held ...
The euro replaced the Croatian kuna on 1 January 2023. The exchange rate between the euro and kuna had been set on 12 July 2022 at 7.5345 HRK and similar to the previous launch of Slovenia, cash and non-cash transactions were introduced simultaneously on the same day and date the country also entered the Schengen Area.
The definitive values of one euro in terms of the exchange rates at which the currency entered the euro are shown in the table. The rates were determined by the Council of the European Union , [ f ] based on a recommendation from the European Commission based on the market rates on 31 December 1998.
The enlargement of the eurozone is an ongoing process within the European Union (EU).All member states of the European Union, except Denmark which negotiated an opt-out from the provisions, are obliged to adopt the euro as their sole currency once they meet the criteria, which include: complying with the debt and deficit criteria outlined by the Stability and Growth Pact, keeping inflation and ...