Economy

Bank of Lithuania: Euros account for 60 percent of cash in circulation

Two weeks after the adoption of the euro, the single European currency now accounts for more than one-half, or some 60 percent, of cash in circulation in Lithuania, the central Bank of Lithuania said, reminding that Thursday is the last day when shoppers can use both currencies, the euro and the litas, to pay in shops. […]

Rimantas Šadžius
Economy

Finance minister says Lithuania needs euro

Lithuania has become the eurozone’s 19th member, but only half of Lithuanians are in favour of the new currency. That will change, Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius told DW, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports. […]

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Economy

Euros account for one third of cash in Lithuania

Euros already account for nearly a third of all cash money in circulation in Lithuania, says Vitas Vasiliauskas, governor of the Bank of Lithuania. […]

Vitas Vasiliauskas
Economy

Lithuanian central bank chief: Euro changeover going smoothly

The governor of the central Bank of Lithuania says there have been no major difficulties in the process of changeover to the euro, which the country adopted on the first day of 2015, the Verslo Žinios business daily reports. […]