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Lithuania and the euro
Adoption of the euro by Lithuania / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lithuania, as an EU member state, joined the eurozone by adopting the euro on 1 January 2015.[1] This made it the last of the three Baltic states to adopt the euro, after Estonia (2011) and Latvia (2014). Before then, its currency, the litas, was pegged to the euro at 3.4528 litas to 1 euro.
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- European Union member states (special territories not shown)
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5 not in ERM II, but obliged to join the eurozone on meeting the convergence criteria (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Sweden)
- Non–EU member states
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