4 ms·
Not difficult at all, many EU countries have decided to stay outside the euro zone. They are doing just fine.
by bostand 10y ago
Not difficult at all, many EU countries have decided to stay outside the euro zone. They are doing just fine.
- walterstucco 10y agonot many, of the original EU founders only Sweden hasn't adopted euro. The other 6 out of 25 that are not using the euro are all ex communist countries. and other two (Monte negro and Kosovo) adopted euro without being part of EU.
- bostand 10y agoSo you agree that it is by no means mandatory? Also, Denmark?
- walterstucco 10y agoNo, I don't. All the non euro countries are working to be admitted, because going forward is the only way. Brits and Dansk are crazy people, who cares what they do. edit: all the non euro countries from the eastern block signed to adopt euro in the future.
- bostand 10y ago> All the non euro countries are working to be admitted Now you are just making things up. Edit: then you should rethink using Wikipedia as your source because that is not accurate. EU cannot force countries to join new treaties this way. The EC may really really want to, but they have no legal right to.
- walterstucco 10y ago> Now you are just making things up No, I'm not, it's part of the treaties. Can't you lookup things on Wikipedia? Is it to hard for you? "The other nine members of the European Union continue to use their own national currencies, although most of them are obliged to adopt the euro in future."
- blibble 10y agowhat? Sweden joined in 1995. Denmark and the UK are examples of other EU states that were not communist that do not use the Euro
- walterstucco 10y agoUK has never been EU. Sweden was among the founder states when Euro was born, not the original states forming EEC in 1957. Denmark is in ERM-II and its Krone has a EU controlled exchange rate against euro. It is possible to be outside euro, but not advisable, the main market for the east non-euro countries is the EU zone, if euro falls down, their fragile economies will follow.
- AnimalMuppet 10y ago> UK has never been EU. What? I'm trying to find any context where that statement makes sense, and I can't do so. UK has never used the Euro, but that's not what "EU" means.
- bjelkeman-again 10y agoCan't reply to the reply, but Sweden is not a founder of the EU.
- walterstucco 10y agoI expanded my answer. I wasn't talking about the treaty of Rome.
- kristianc 10y agoWhether they're 'doing fine' wasn't the question at hand - it was whether the economies had harmonized with the rest of the EU.