• woelkchen@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    We could make EMU membership a condition for their EU membership

    That’s already a condition. New members cannot opt out of the Euro once the criteria are met.

    • OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml
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      2 days ago

      One of the criteria is to deliberately peg your currency to the Euro for two years. This is optional and you can simply never do it.

      So Sweden will not join the Euro without a referendum, even though they don’t have an opt out.

    • Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip
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      Sure, but a lot of EMU members never met the criteria (if you mean Maastricht), so it’s always a per-country decision.

      Anyway, UK opted out at the beginning iirc (bcs politicians didn’t want to lose power), so I’m just saying we don’t let them have that luxury again (that € isn’t negotiable).