Poles increasingly against euro

euro polandA new opinion poll has found that 52 percent of respondents feel that joining the eurozone would have a negative effect on Poland.

for Poland. Although 44 percent of respondents said that they were in favour of taking up the euro, 16 percent argued that Poland should wait ten years.

As many as 63 percent of respondents stated that did not think joining the euro would have a positive effect on their individual financial situation, and 13 percent forecast it would not make any difference. Meanwhile, 45 percent of those surveyed said that Poland’s adoption of the single currency would have a detrimental effect on Poles’ sense of national identity.

The opposite opinion was held by 13 percent of respondents, while 18 percent said that abandoning the zloty would be neither good nor bad for the national identity. The survey was carried out from 7 March to 12 March on 1000 people across Poland.

The country has been an EU member state since 2004.

Source: Polskie Radio - nh - PAP