{"id":3948,"date":"2015-01-03T09:14:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T14:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3948"},"modified":"2015-01-03T09:14:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T14:14:44","slug":"peak-irony-in-no-exit-union-as-grexit-chaos-resurges-lithuania-joins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3948","title":{"rendered":"Peak Irony in No-Exit Union: As Grexit Chaos Resurges, Lithuania Joins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wolfstreet.com\/2015\/01\/02\/what-irony-as-euro-grexit-chaos-resurges-lithuania-joins\/\" target=\"_blank\">Peak Irony in No-Exit Union: As Grexit Chaos Resurges, Lithuania Joins<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On January 1, 2015, the Eurozone quietly welcomed a new member, Lithuania, to its fold. The former Soviet satellite became the 19th EU Member State to have joined the increasingly beleaguered currency union.<\/p>\n<p>According to an opinion poll conducted by Berent Research Baltic on behalf of the Bank of Lithuania, 53% of the Lithuanian population support euro adoption. And who wouldn\u2019t trust a central bank to conduct an honest and fair survey of public approval of something as insignificant as the adoption of a new currency?<\/p>\n<p>One group that clearly didn\u2019t was the eurosceptic Europeans United for Democracy (EUD) party which commissioned a poll of its own via Baltics Survey. The results could not have diverged more from the Bank of Lithuania\u2019s poll, with only 26% of respondents approving of the government\u2019s decision while 49% disapproved of it.<\/p>\n<p>Who\u2019s to say which is right? Or at least righter? In the end the point is moot since, in time-honored EU fashion, no public referendum was held on the matter. Instead the final decision was taken in parliament while the Supreme Administrative Court blocked any attempts to call a referendum. After all, one can never be too careful these days: voters might have voted NO, just as French, Dutch and Irish voters did in their respective referendums on the Nice Accord, to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peak Irony in No-Exit Union: As Grexit Chaos Resurges, Lithuania Joins On January 1, 2015, the Eurozone quietly welcomed a new member, Lithuania, to its fold. The former Soviet satellite became the 19th EU Member State to have joined the increasingly beleaguered currency union. According to an opinion poll conducted by Berent Research Baltic on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2246,284,285,2368],"class_list":["post-3948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-european-monetary-union","tag-european-union","tag-eurozone","tag-lithuania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3949,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948\/revisions\/3949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}