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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