By the Treaty of Accession to the EU, Romania opted for the euro adoption. According to the Maastricht Treaty, since … 2014 Romania has fulfilled the nominal convergence criteria, thus becoming apt to adopt the euro. But a careful analysis of … the reality and the lessons learnt from the Euro Area crisis show that the real convergence criterion is able to ensure …

between exchange rates and prices, showing that there is at most a moderate decline in exchange rate pass-through for the euro … of euro area exports to exchange rate changes may have declined somewhat as a result of globalisation, reflecting mainly … exchange rates on GDP and the potential role of valuation effects as a transmission channel in the case of the euro area. …