Romania euro entry ‘no longer feasible’ for 2019, central bank governor says

Mugur Isărescu says new timetable is necessary

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Mugur Isărescu

It is "no longer feasible" for Romania to adopt the euro by 2019, the governor of the country's central bank said on September 30. Mugur Isărescu told a press conference in Bucharest that eurozone entry by that date was "no longer technically possible even if we'd still politically like to do so".

Isărescu added the government needed to "establish a road map that all parties will respect, including the opposition". Since December 2014 Romania has been led by a coalition government led by prime

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