Upon joining the European Union, the new Member States are bound to the fulfillment of a number of EMU-specific obligations: they obligate themselves to orient their overall policies, and specifically their economic and monetary policies, toward the objectives of EMU, and they must endeavour to make progress toward meeting the convergence criteria stipulated by the Maastricht Treaty.
Yakiv Smolii: National Bank of Ukraine press briefing - changes in the denominations of banknotes and coins of hryvnia Speech by Mr Yakiv Smolii, Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine, at a press briefing on optimization of the denominations of banknotes and coins of hryvnia, Kyiv, 25 June 2019.