Germany is pressuring Poland to adopt the euro currency, Poland’s central bank governor Adam Glapinski said on Friday, vowing to prevent this as long as he’s in charge of the Polish monetary policy.
Stressing that this is about Poland maintaining its independence and sovereignty, Glapinski said at a news conference in Warsaw that Berlin has been intensely pushing Warsaw to join the common currency and to help build a European super-state.
Poland’s opposition party leader Donald Tusk has been criticizing Glapinski for the highest inflation in the country in a quarter of a century, but he played down the attacks, dismissing them as motivated by people seeking to force Poland to ditch the zloty for the euro.
Tusk also claimed that Glapinski may have been illegally appointed to a new six-year term.
Poland does not use the euro as its currency although it joined the European Union in 2004 and, under the terms of the Accession Treaty, all new members should participate in the economic and monetary union from the date of accession.
That means that Warsaw is obliged to replace its currency, the zloty, with the euro, sooner or later but the current government has repeatedly opposed joining the Eurozone for the foreseeable future.
Glapinski said – without explaining why this would be an issue – that the membership in the Eurozone may make it impossible for Poland to buy the latest American military technology.
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