Croatia adopts euro, enters borderless Europe club on New Year

Croatia adopts euro, enters borderless Europe club on New Year

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Category : International Published on: January 03 2023

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  • Croatia has switched to the euro and entered Europe’s passport-free zone – two important milestones for the country after joining the European Union (EU) nearly a decade ago.
  • The Balkan nation Croatia bid farewell to its kuna currency and became the 20th member of the eurozone.
  • It is now the 27th nation in the Schengen zone, the world’s largest passport-free travel area, which enables more than 400 million people to move freely around its members.
  • Croatia, a former Yugoslav republic of 3.9 million people that fought a war of independence in the 1990s, joined the EU in 2013.
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