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Unlike other countries, Lithuania became independent on two separate occasions. Lithuania first declared itself from Czarist Russia on February 16, 1918. They remained an independent nation till 1940, when the erstwhile Soviet Union annexed it. After remaining under Soviet Union for almost 50 years, the Republic of Lithuania became independent once again in 1990.
On January 1, 2009, Slovakia started using the euro. Estonia began using the euro on January 1, 2011. Latvia began using the euro as its currency on January 1, 2014. Lithuania is expected to join the Eurozone in the next few years and thus become a new country using the euro. Only 18 of the 27 members of the European Union (EU) are part of the Eurozone, the name for the collection of EU countries that utilize the euro.