Slovakia has no intention of ditching the euro, Foreign Minister Mikulas Dzurinda said Thursday during a visit to Poland, after his nation's speaker of parliament said it was time to consider a pullout from the currency.
Slovakia
has
no intention of ditching the euro, Foreign Minister Mikulas Dzurinda said
Thursday during a visit to
Poland
,
after his nation's speaker of parliament said it was time to consider a pullout
from the currency.
"Abandoning the euro is not an issue," Dzurinda told reporters.
"The euro is a good thing, and that's not always the case for some
politicians. We shouldn't change currency, we should change plenty of
politicians," he said in an apparent swipe at the speaker, Richard Sulik.
In an article published Monday, Sulik said it was time to seriously consider
dropping the euro, which the country adopted in January 2009, if the currency
union's problems deepen.
"It's high time Slovakia stopped blindly trusting the eurozone leaders and
prepared a Plan B, which is a reintroduction of the Slovak koruna," Sulik,
who is also an economist, wrote in a column for the Hospodarske Noviny daily.
Sulik wrote that
Slovakia
had
worked hard to meet rules for entry to the euro zone.
"Two years later, I must sadly say the same rules are not valid for everyone,"
he added.
Slovakia
, an
ex-communist economy which joined the European Union in 2004, was the only
holdout among eurozone members against the bloc's rescue package for
Greece
earlier this year.
"If an irresponsible company, whether in
Poland
or
Slovakia
, can
go bankrupt, then the same rules should also apply to irresponsible
states," Dzurinda said Thursday.
Slovakia
has
also been pushing for private investors to suffer losses as part of EU
bailouts, saying taxpayers shouldn't bear all the costs.
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