Austria, Finland and Sweden became members of the EU in 1995. This paper examines how support for the euro and trust in …. Support for the euro in the two euroarea members Austria and Finland has remained high and relatively stable since the … physical introduction of the new currency nearly 20 years ago, while the euro crisis significantly reduced support for the euro …

institutional deficiencies share responsibility for the euro's failure, the bank has generally done "too little, too late" with … regard to managing the euro crisis, preventing protracted stagnation, and containing deflation threats. The bank remains … attached to the euro area’s official competitive wage-repression strategy, which is in conflict with the ECB's price stability …

that the ECB may well stand out positively when compared to other important euro-area or national authorities involved in … managing the euro crisis, but that in general the bank did "too little, too late" to prevent the euro area from slipping into … excessively optimistic, and that proposals featuring the central bank as the euro’s savior through even more radical employment of …

This study presents a cost-benefit analysis of euro adoption for the case of Bulgaria. Based on a review of existing … similar studies for other East European EU member states, it outlines the basic types of potential costs and benefits of euro … important nuances which may be of relevance for the analysis of euro adoption in Eastern Europe in general. …