{"id":7256,"date":"2014-07-25T10:14:05","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T07:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/?p=7256"},"modified":"2014-07-30T10:12:39","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T07:12:39","slug":"lithuania-changes-the-ecbs-voting-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/lithuania-changes-the-ecbs-voting-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania changes the ECB\u2019s voting system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Merler, Silvia.<\/p>\n<p>Lithuania will become the 19th member of the Euro area on the 1st of January, following Wednesday\u2019s Council endorsement. The most important part of the story &#8211; however &#8211; is not that someone is still brave enough to join the Euro area, but that Lithuania&#8217;s accession will trigger a change in the voting system of the ECB. Lithuania\u2019s accession to the euro area will be effective on the 1st of January 2015. This will bring the number of eurozone members to 19 and the Governing Council\u2019s members to 25 (6 members of the executive board and 19 National Central Bank governors). Enough to trigger a change in the ECB\u2019s Governing Council\u2019s voting system, which will start rotating.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u03a0\u03b7\u03b3\u03ae:<\/strong> Bruegel<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bruegel.org\/nc\/blog\/detail\/article\/1403-fact-of-the-week-lithuania-changes-the-ecbs-voting-system\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u03c0\u03bb\u03ae\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b5\u03af\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merler, Silvia. Lithuania will become the 19th member of the Euro area on the 1st of January, following Wednesday\u2019s Council endorsement. The most important part of the story &#8211; however &#8211; is not that someone is still brave enough to join the Euro area, but that Lithuania&#8217;s accession will trigger a change in the voting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,37,4],"tags":[26,28],"class_list":["post-7256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18","category-37","category-proposals","tag-26","tag-28"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7256"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7270,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7256\/revisions\/7270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}