Estonia joins crisis-hit euro club, others wary

TALLINN (Reuters) - Estonia joined the euro zone as its newest member on Saturday, but the currency club's deepening crisis is likely to put off bigger eastern European entrants from joining for up to a decade.

The small Baltic state of 1.3 million became the 17th euro zone country at midnight, beginning a switch from the kroon, and was the first former Soviet state to adopt the euro.