EUROPEAN MONETARY UNION AND ROMANIA

Romania face the question of whether and in what time frame the economy will be capable of fulfilling the conditions for entering into the euro area. In general, those conditions can be understood as attaining such parameters in various fields of economic life that will ensure successful operation of the economy in the environment of the single monetary policy of the European Central Bank. This article analyzes the main issues of the euro adoption in Romania. In the medium term, an important challenge for Romania is to achieve real and nominal convergence. Within this framework, the Eurosystem emphasizes the need to perform real convergence in parallel with and not on the behalf of nominal convergence. The question of optimal timing of euro adoption has to be addressed.