the last country joined the eu in 2009.
the last country joined the eu in 2009.
when did the last country join the eu?
2009
croatia's eu membership obliges it to eventually join the eurozone, as such the country plans to join the european monetary system, the pathway to euro adoption. prior to croatian entry to the eu on 1 july 2013, boris vujčić, governor of the croatian national bank, stated that he would like the kuna to be replaced by the euro as soon as possible after accession. this must be at least two years after croatia joins the erm2 (in addition to it meeting other criteria). the croatian national bank had anticipated euro adoption within two or three years of eu entry. however, the eu's response to the ongoing financial crises in eurozone states may delay croatia's adoption of the euro. the country's own contracting economy also poses a major challenge to it meeting the convergence criteria. while keen on euro adoption, one month before croatia's eu entry governor vujčić admitted "...we have no date [to join the single currency] in mind at the moment". before croatia can join erm ii, it must reduce its budget deficit by about 1.5 billion kuna (june 2013 figures). the european central bank was expecting croatia to be approved for erm ii membership in 2016 at the earliest, with euro adoption in 2019.
croatia and the euro
the last country to ban the atlantic slave trade was brazil in 1831. however, a vibrant illegal trade continued to ship large numbers of enslaved people to brazil and also to cuba until the 1860s, when british enforcement and further diplomacy finally ended the atlantic slave trade. in 1870, portugal ended the last trade route with the americas, where the last country to import slaves was brazil. in brazil, however, slavery itself was not ended until 1888, making it the last country in the americas to end involuntary servitude.
atlantic slave trade