​Lithuania.As beloved Granpa Homer would put it:" Just away from Skylla and into the Charybdis" .Or ,as beloved Gourou Tolkien would say:"Outside of the frying pan, into the fire"

​Lithuania.
As beloved Granpa Homer would put it:" Just away from Skylla and into the Charybdis" . Or , as beloved Gourou Tolkien would say:"Outside of the frying pan, into the fire" . 
All these East Northern and Baltic European Nations suffered so, so very much   under the dire Soviet  regime  -Russians too , mind you- that the West+E.U.+NATO  lethal de-Humanizing embrace, escapes their perception presently, through the glitz and glamor and consumption and hypocrisy and Mind-kontrol etc. , effects. Let us hope and wish for them ALL : Happy New Life in Light , Peace and Abundance.
Discernment, Self- defining, retrieving and withholding Self-Sovereignty , precious allies to 
Humanity's Awakening. m.l.p.
  
Ο Οδυσσέας μπροστά στη Σκύλλα και τη Χάρυβδη, του Johann Heinrich Füssli

​Lithuania joins Eurozone despite 40% of population being against

Published time: January 01, 2015 18:52
Edited time: January 01, 2015 19:26

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Lithuania's Minister of Finance Rimantas Sadzius holds a euro banknote during an event celebrating Lithuania's joining the euro zone in Vilnius January 1, 2015. (Reuters/Ints Kalnins)

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Lithuania has celebrated the New Year by joining the eurozone. The decision is country’s bid to boost stability despite inflation fears and euro zone debt troubles. However, according to a November poll about 40 percent of the population opposed the move.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius was withdrew his first 10 euro from Vilnius cash machine right after midnight January 1. The exchange rate is now set at one euro for 3.45 litas, the country’s old currency. Both litas and euros will circulate in the country till June.
"The euro will serve as a guarantee for our economic and political security," Butkevicius said at a ceremony which was attended by officials of other Baltic states - Estonia and Latvia.
Latvia joined eurozone on January 1, 2014 despite opinion polls showed that a majority of the country’s population opposed the move, with just one-fifth strongly in favor. Estonia joined the currency bloc in 2011.

A customer pays in euro banknotes in a supermarket in Vilnius on January 1, 2015. (AFP Photo / Petras Malukas)

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"Myself, and I think, many of you feel sad that the litas, which has served us well for more than two decades, becomes history, but we have to move forward," said Lithuania's Finance Minister Rimantas Sadzius at the ceremony.
Earlier the country’s President Dalia Grybauskaite said that joining eurozone is symbol of "deeper economic and political integration with the West.”
However, not everyone in Lithuania shared the optimism of Grybauskaite. According to a November survey released by the central bank, only 53 percent of the population supported the move, while 39 percent were against.

(L-R): Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius , Chairman of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania Vitas Vasiliauskas, and Estonian Prime Minister Taavi Roivas. (AFP Photo / Petras Malukas)

"Financial commitments are a huge burden and increase the country's debt. I think we should have delayed entry," financial analyst Valdemaras Katkus told AFP.
In the meantime the European Commission has put a huge banner over its headquarters in Brussels, saying "Welcome to the euro area, Lithuania!"
EU economic affairs commissioner Pierre Moscovici said that in joining the euro, the Lithuanian people are “choosing to be part of an area of stability, security and prosperity.”
Lithuania has already donated millions of euros to the eurozone's rescue fund for struggling EU members, such as Greece