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Polish PM reconsidering euro entry date
PM Donald Tusk is considering postponing the planned euro adoption by e.g. one year from the planned Jan 1, 2012, the daily Dziennik reported, quoting unnamed high-ranking government source.The goal would be to avoid a referendum on the euro adoption’s term, demanded by the opposition Law and Justice (PiS) in exchange for its agreement to change the Polish constitution, which now mentions the zloty as the country’s official currency and vests monetary policy in the National Bank of Poland. The next general polls are due in 2011, which might suggest that the ruling Civic Platform (PO) hopes to muster, together with its coalition partner, the Polish Peasants’ Party (PSL), majority allowing to change the constitution without the votes of the PiS. The PM earlier spoke against the referendum. According to him, such a vote already took place in a way when Poles cast their votes in the referendum on accepting Poland ’s EU accession treaty held in 2003.
Similar unofficial news was circulated earlier in the day by the private radio RMF FM, which quoted sources at the PM chancellery. However, they were rejected by one of the key aides of the PM, Michal Boni, who told the daily Rzeczpospolita that the government still aimed at entering the euro-zone in 2012.
