10 Euros Euro Introduction

Slovakia joined the Eurozone on 1 January 2009, making it the first of the Visegrád Group nations to adopt the euro — a political and economic decision that required years of disciplined fiscal adjustment to meet the Maastricht convergence criteria. This commemorative marks a decade of that membership. The 2009 accession had been controversial domestically, with the exchange rate fixed at 30.1260 Slovak koruny to the euro, a rate that drew criticism from exporters who considered it overvalued.