Made in Germany | Estonia: Joining the Euro-Zone in 2011? | Deutsche Welle

Estonia is the only candidate for adopting the euro currency in 2011. The euro offers the Baltic country its only chance of overcoming the devaluation of the krone and stimulating growth.The governments rigorous measures have reduced the budget deficit to fulfill the Maastricht criteria for joining the EUs common currency. But there are also critics of the euro in Estonia. Report by Karl Harenbrock.

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[fabienik]

Welcome Estonia to Euro Zone

[KENT6113]

Congratulation!

[SirMegaToxity]

thank you.. wery kind of ya dudes (= euro is perdy nice but it needs getting used to (=

[bbphnix]

well they did adopt it; it was on the news; good look estonians!

[neongecko06]

Estonian names are sure pronounced weirdly in english news. :p Tallinn sounds just like it's written and yet she says "Talleen". And while the president Toomas Ilves clearly has two O's in his name, newscasters still call him "Tomaas".

Are they trying to make them sound exotic or something?

[holidaymanWOOT]

nice spelling :p

[AMAZONAX]

the euro is a koctel of eurocrat want to poisson the sistem!! Estonia has to says NO to euro!!!