Across the post-Soviet world, the economic and political recovery from the shock of 2008 was uneven. On the northern flank, the Baltics continued on their course toward the West. Estonia joined the euro on January 1, 2011. Latvia, the pivotal crisis country of 2009, adopted the common currency on January 1, 2014, followed a year later by Lithuania. The rest of Eastern Europe was supposed, under the terms of their 2004 accession, to join the euro in due course too.
