Survey: half of Hungarians are against adopting Euro

Results of a representative survey show how Hungarians feel about the possible introduction of the official currency of the majority of the EU: the Euro. As it turns out, half of the respondents found it unnecessary.

Results of a representative survey conducted by Závech Research show that only 38% of Hungarians support the introduction of Euro, 24.hu reports.

Almost half of the respondents (49%) think that Hungary does not need to adopt the official currency of the European Union,

while 13% of respondents could not or did not want to answer the question.

Currently, 19 of the 28 member states use the Euro.

Ten countries joined the European Union in 2004, including Hungary. Seven out of these countries (Slovenia, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Cyprus, and Malta) already adopted the Euro currency. Slovenia was the fastest, which introduced the Euro in 2007. Thus, the remaining states who joined the union in 2004 (Hungary, Poland, the Check Republic) have not adopted the currency yet, together with countries who joined the EU later (like Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia).

The Hungarian government is not very keen on adopting the Euro.