Slovenia broke ground in 2007 when the country joined the Eurozone and became the first formerly communist country to do so.
Slovenia . It has been severely hurt by the Eurozone crisis , started in the late 2000s . In 2004 , it entered NATO and the European Union ; in 2007 became the first formerly communist country to join the Eurozone ; and in 2010 joined the OECD , a global association of high-income developed countries .