"The euro was adopted in 2002 at the same time as in Europe," Agron Dida of Kosovo's Central bank told AFP.A "gentlemen's agreement"?
"The EU did not decide officially to grant Kosovo the right to use the euro, but there was a gentlemen's agreement between the UN and EU to allow Kosovo to use it," he said, explaining how the first batch of 150 million sent from the German central bank to Pristina was transferred in a plane under NATO military protection.
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