Lithuania’s entry into the euro zone and its impact on the European Central Bank

Since joining the European Union in 2004 Lithuania's main goal was to integrate the Economic and Monetary Union, and this happened on 1st January 2015, thereby making it the eurozone's 19th member.

This would reinforce the European strategy of a country that in part is dependent on the economy of Russia and which is suffering directly the consequences of its support to member countries of the Eastern Partnership and the sanctions policy against Russia.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Lithuania becomes the 19th Member State to adopt the euro http://www.europeansources.info/record/lithuania-becomes-the-19th-member-state-to-adopt-the-euro/

ESO: Background information: Lithuania and the euro http://www.europeansources.info/record/lithuania-and-the-euro/

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