Emerging Europe: Mirow stresses the positives of the eurozone

THOMAS MIROW IS unequivocal about it being in the best interests of the leading central and eastern European countries that are members of the EU to join the eurozone. “Definitely, yes,” says the president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. On January 1 Estonia became the newest member of the troubled currency bloc, following Slovakia and Slovenia as part of the first wave of former Communist countries to adopt the single currency. “For a small economy like Estonia with very strong trade relationships with Finland, this is the right thing to do,” says Mirow.