And by "neo-liberal", I mean they've started over entirely with a radical break from their communist past, creating a highly competitive economy without burdensome entitlement issues or overly expensive social security. They even have that flat tax that iirc you were advocating in another post.

Of course, Estonia is so small that its inclusion really doesn't matter much either way. Rather like Slovenia that way. The only latecomer to the euro that really has some weight (if you leave out Greece, which wasn't much of a latecomer, evidently it should've been more so ) is Slovakia, and even that is only a country of what, five million? The real question is whether Poland or Romania will ever be in a position to join - or even the Czech Republic. Then again, all these smaller countries do add up - Latvia and Lithuania will likely follow within a number of years.