標題:Warsaw to speed euro adoption By Jan Cienski in Warsaw Published: October 28 2008 22:00 | Last updated: October 28 2008 22:00 Poland’s government on Tuesday spelled out the country’s path to adopting the euro by 2012, part of a series of moves designed to help calm spooked investors who have been retreating from the Polish zloty as emerging market currencies are buffeted by the global financial crisis. The plan calls for the government to begin talks on amending the constitution by early next year – the current document allows only Poland’s central bank to set monetary policy. Later in 2009, Poland would enter the ERM-2 European exchange rate mechanism, and the final exchange rate between the euro and the zloty would be set in the summer of 2011. Poland would be admitted to the common currency by January 1 2012. “We want to retain an ambitious calendar of readying Poland by the end of 2011. We realise we will need the co-operation of the opposition in order to change the constitution,” said Donald Tusk, the prime minister. Without the support of the opposition Law and Justice party, Mr Tusk lacks the necessary two-thirds vote in parliament to amend the constitution. Mr Tusk held an unusually cordial meeting on Monday with Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the eurosceptical leader of Law and Justice, who said he was still not persuaded of the need for a speedy adoption of the common currency, but would back a referendum on the question. On Tuesday Mr Tusk’s cabinet met Lech Kaczynski, Poland’s president, and the prime minister said that for the first time he had heard “words which allow me to believe that this project will be accepted, or at least be seriously treated by the president.” Mr Kaczynski, who has not been enthusiastic about an early entry into the eurozone, said it was a matter worthy of “deep consideration”. The two leaders, who have spent the better part of the last year sniping at each other, were remarkably polite. The Kaczynski twins have warned in the past that joining the euro would push up prices, especially for the pensioners and poor who form an important part of the party’s supporters, and could slow economic growth. However, the impact of the financial crisis, which saw the zloty dive in tandem with the troubled Hungarian forint in spite of protests from Polish politicians that economic conditions were very different in Poland, seems to have concentrated minds. A recent poll shows 70 per cent of voters favouring the common currency. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2008 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/630e3136-a52a-11dd-b4f5-000077b07658,dwp_uuid= 70662e7c-3027-11da-ba9f-00000e2511c8.html?nclick_check=1 新聞來源: (需有正確連結) -- --

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