Real average GDP growth in years 2005–2015

Why not? Most large transactions and subscriptions are in euros or based on the euro value, a large percentage of bank loans are also in euros and most of our trade is with Eurozone countries (Germany, Italy, France, Austria, Spain and Greece are >50% of our trade).
The Leu has been traditionally a fairly weak currency and our National Bank is trying to maintain a 4.5 RON to 1 EUR exchange rate because so many domestic loans are in euros, the Leu is unofficially pegged.
Realistically we can't adopt the Euro for probably another decade because we're still fairly underdeveloped compared to the EU average, but having a stable currency which most of our trading partners share would help our economy quite a bit and make Romania a lot more attractive to investors. It would also lower government bond yields quite drastically.

We'd lose some control over our currency, but we'd also gain the benefits I pointed above. Inflation was a concern (prices supposedly would rise by adopting the Euro), but the recently joined Baltics & Slovakia have shown that's not really the case.

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