{"id":3031,"date":"2010-06-16T07:31:26","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T06:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politics.widmann.org.uk\/?p=2752"},"modified":"2010-06-16T07:31:26","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T06:31:26","slug":"2752","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/2752\/","title":{"rendered":"Estonian euros"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/european_parliament\/4641929352\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3384\/4641929352_277e714035_m_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/european_parliament\/4641929352\/\">MEPs back Estonia&#8217;s euro ambitions<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/european_parliament\/\">European Parliament<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<p>This is old news, but it didn&#8217;t seem to get mentioned a lot in the British press:<\/p>\n<p>Estonia <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/business\/10264800.stm\">will join the Eurozone<\/a> from 1\/1\/2011.<\/p>\n<p>The decision is not formal yet &ndash; that won&#8217;t happen for another month, but it&#8217;d be very surprising if anybody decided to block this.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder why it has been so scarcely reported here.  Does it somehow not fit in with the narrative of the euro&#8217;s imminent demise?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEPs back Estonia&#8217;s euro ambitions Originally uploaded by European Parliament This is old news, but it didn&#8217;t seem to get mentioned a lot in the British press: Estonia will join the Eurozone from 1\/1\/2011. The decision is not formal yet &ndash; that won&#8217;t happen for another month, but it&#8217;d be very surprising if anybody decided to block this. I wonder why it has been so scarcely reported here. Does it somehow not fit in with the narrative of the euro&#8217;s imminent demise?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,159,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-en","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}