Support for joining the euro zone is exceptionally high, at around 70-75%, in Hungary, Prime Minister Péter Magyar said following talks with Eurogroup president Kyriakos Perrakakis in Budapest on Friday.
Among member states outside the euro zone, Hungary has the high level of support for joining, the Prime Minister added.
"This has not always been the case, but in recent years, under the previous government, Hungarians have come to see that remaining outside the euro zone was synonymous with instability, unpredictability, economic decline, high inflation, impoverishment, the flight of foreign investment and low wages," Péter Magyar explained.
He pointed out that the government's fundamental goal is for Hungary to meet the conditions for joining the euro zone, the Maastricht criteria, by around 2030. "This is no easy task because Hungary today does not meet a single criterion and when the country joined the European Union twenty-two years ago, we were in many respects closer to a potential euro zone accession than we are now," he explained.
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