Croatia to switch to euro, enter passport-free Schengen zone

Re:Croatia to switch to euro, enter passport-free Schengen zone by pydry on Saturday December 31, 2022 @09:34PM (#34203003)

It's more like forcing your unemployed brother in law to always go to the fancy, expensive restaurant you go to with your high flying lawyer friends and then splitting the bill 50/50.

America does fiscal transfers. Poorer states get money from richer states. It wouldnt work if they were all routinely forced to borrow money and declare bankruptcy.

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Re:Croatia to switch to euro, enter passport-free Schengen zone by pavlov on Saturday December 31, 2022 @10:38PM (#34203336)

The EU does fiscal transfers too. Its 150 billion EUR budget isn’t anywhere near as large as the US federal one, but it’s definitely used as a tool to level up the poorer member states.

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Re:Croatia to switch to euro, enter passport-free Schengen zone by happyjack on Saturday December 31, 2022 @11:10PM (#34203513)

100% true. America subsidizes many states and sectors of the nation. But we are able to do this because there is a common representation.

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