The leader of the European Union visited Croatia on Sunday to have fun the “immense achievements” of the latest EU member country, which switched to the use of the euro and joined the sector’s greatest passport-free commute house on New Year’s Day.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen met with leaders of Croatia and Slovenia on the Bregana border crossing between the 2 Balkan international locations, which was out of date within the first mins of 2023 because the Schengen Area was once expanded to incorporate Croatia.
At nighttime on Saturday, Croatia additionally relegated its nationwide forex, the kuna, to historical past and altered to the euro, the typical forex utilized by 347 million Europeans,
“There is no place in Europe where it is more true today that it is the season of new beginnings and new chapters than here at the border between Croatia and Slovenia,” von der Leyen stated. “Indeed, this is a day for history books.”
Slovenia, which joined the EU in May 2004, has been tasked with safeguarding the Schengen Area’s boundary because it was a part of the passport-free zone in 2007.
Croatia, which was once admitted to the EU in 2013, now assumes that accountability. After assembly von der Leyen and Slovenian President Natasa Pirc Musar on the Bregana border crossing, Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic pledged to keep an eye on its japanese borders with non-EU neighbours Bosnia, Serbia and Montenegro, which now shape the Schengen Area’s exterior borders.
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