Croatia officially adopted the euro as its currency and entered the passport-free Schengen Area on New Year's Day, with the moves signaling the country's deeper integration into the European Union at a time of high inflation in the bloc and weakness in the single currency.
Zagreb, Jan 1 (EFE).- Croatia on Sunday joined the Schengen area of visa free movement and switched its currency to the euro, a decade after joining the European Union (EU). At midnight that brought in the new year, barricades were lifted at Croatia’s 73 border crossings with Slovenia and Hungary, marking its assimilation into the …