Blog post
22 June 2022
Discretion lets Croatia in but leaves Bulgaria out of the euro area in 2023
Crucial decisions about whether a country can join the euro area depend on questionable discretionary decisions.
Bulgaria
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External publication
30 March 2022
Close cooperation for bank supervision: The cases of Bulgaria and Croatia
In-depth analysis on the banking supervision cooperation in Bulgaria and Croatia prepared for the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Mone
Policy brief
10 October 2019
With or without you: are central European countries ready for the euro?
The debate on euro adoption by central European EU countries has intensified in the last years. In this Policy Contribution the author does not review
Opinion piece
11 September 2018
Should central European EU members join the euro zone?
Eurozone membership (or the use of a fixed exchange rate) was not a factor determining economic success in Central Europe. There were both good and ba
Blog post
29 August 2018
Criteria for entry into the ERMII and the banking union: the precedent from Bulgaria
In its bid to join the single currency Bulgaria has made commitments on financial supervision but also wider structural reform which set a precedent f
Blog post
19 March 2015
A tale of floods and dams
A lot of debate has recently focused on the management of the fiscal crisis in Greece and whether or not the speed of adjustment has been too fast or