Hungary’s finance minister-elect commits to euro adoption by 2030
The post Hungary’s finance minister-elect commits to euro adoption by 2030 appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Hungary just made the most decisive pivot toward Brussels in over a decade. Newly appointed finance minister András Kármán has committed to meeting all euro adoption criteria by 2030, a timeline that would have been unthinkable just months ago under the previous government. The pledge follows the April 12, 2026 landslide victory of Péter Magyar’s Tisza party, which ousted Viktor Orbán and his long-running Euroskeptic administration. Where Orbán spent years keeping the European Union at arm’s length, including letting billions in EU funds sit frozen over rule-of-law disputes, the new government is sprinting in the opposite direction. What euro adoption actually requires Countries must satisfy the Maastricht criteria, a set of economic benchmarks covering inflation rates, government debt levels, budget deficits, and exchange rate stability. The most concrete target Kármán has o