When I first got acquainted with this country via the Internet, I was very surprised that it does not have its own currency. I imagined that they had some \u201cblack hryvnias\u201d there, but it turned out that they use the euro. From what? Montenegro is the only country that, without being a member of the European Union, uses the currency of the European Union!
\nIt was a mystery to me until recently. One of our Montenegrin acquaintances, Lydia, told us what the matter was. It all started with the fact that during the Yugoslav war, NATO peacekeeping forces were introduced into the territory of Montenegro. Mostly they were German troops. German soldiers, not having Montenegrin currency, but having stamps, began to pay with them everywhere. So the flow of German currency poured into the country. Montenegrin leader Milo Djukanovic said that the Deutschemark had improved the country's financial system. In 2000, Montenegro switched to the brand officially; those. banks began to work with this currency. And when the European Union introduced the euro, Montenegro had no choice but to also switch to the European currency. And since 2002, the euro has become the official currency. Here is such a story.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When I first got acquainted with this country via the Internet, I was very surprised that it does not have its own currency. I imagined that they had some kind of \u201cblack-kopeck coins\u201d there, but it turned out that they use euros. From what? Montenegro is the only country that, without being a member of the European Union, uses the currency of the European Union! This was a mystery to me until recently. One [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monteonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monteonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monteonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monteonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monteonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/monteonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33680,"href":"https:\/\/monteonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32607\/revisions\/33680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monteonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monteonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monteonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monteonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}