Republic of Slovenia - Financial System Stability Assessment, Including Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes on the Following Topics: Banking Supervision, Securities Regulation, Insurance Supervision, and Payment Systems (Electronic book text)

1. Slovenia is set to become the first among the new EU member states to adopt the euro.Aided by broadly favorable initial conditions and generally sound macroeconomic and incomes policies, Slovenia has over the past decade sustained robust growth with small external imbalances, while gradually lowering inflation to euro-area levels. Long-term interest rates, the fiscal deficit, the public debt ratio, and inflation were all within the Maastricht Treaty limits at end-2005. This, combined with the tolar's two successful years within the ERM2, has set the stage for euro adoption in January 2007.