By joining the European Union, each member state committed itself to adopting the euro as its own national currency at some point, in other words, to become part of the European Monetary Union. The goal of EMU is to establish greater european integration using the same currency. In order for a member state to successfully pass the process of introducing the euro, the provisions of the Maastricht Treaty established nominal convergence criteria - economic conditions that EU member states must fulfill in order to adopt the euro. The criteria that must be met are: price stability, interest rate criteria, exchange rate stability, and state finance criteria that require low levels of public debt and budget deficit. Euroization brings with it numerous benefits, but also disadvantages. The hesitancy to introduce the euro is mainly due to the perception of a price increase triggered by the conversion, but many studies show that such a price increase is actually very mild and one-time. It is difficult to determine precisely how much influence the introduction of the euro has on price movements, because there are many other factors that promote inflation at the same time. Researches show that inflation often appears to consumers to be higher than it actually is. Croatia will enter the eurozone during a period in which extremely high inflation rates prevail, therefore it is important to separate the reasons for the increase in inflation due to macroeconomic trends and factors that have nothing to do with the euroization process from those that are a consequence of the introduction of the euro.