Poland wants to join the eurozone because it is the political heart of the European Union, its foreign minister, Radek Sikorski, has said, with the country looking to enter the single currency by 2020.
“In every annual speech to parliament I say that, in my judgement as foreign minister, we should join. I am leader of this process because, politically, we want to be inside,” Sikorski told a group of journalists in Brussels on Monday (20 January).
“Our judgement is that in the next decade the real European union will be inside the eurozone. And we want to be part of that.”
He acknowledged that the political, financial and economic case for joining the single currency will have to be made to the Polish people, whose support for the move has slumped from a high of 80 percent five years ago, at the outset of the economic crisis, to 30 percent today.
An ideal single currency union would see “countries live within their means, have competitive economies [and] low interest rates.”
But any political discrimination when it comes to top EU jobs because Warsaw is not yet a part of the 18-member single currency would be wrong, he said…….
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Source: EUobserver - Honor Mahony