While a majority of Poles want their country to join the European Union, less than one quarter want to abandon their national currency and adopt the euro as soon as possible
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27 February 2001 y., Tuesday
While a majority of Poles want their country to join the European Union, less than one quarter want to abandon their national currency and adopt the euro as soon as possible, according to a poll released Monday.
Only 23 percent of Poles said they are ready to part with the zloty two years after joining the EU, the earliest possible time new members can adopt the euro after membership, according to a PBS poll published in Rzeczpospolita daily Monday.
A higher percentage of Poles, 29 percent, said they did not want to adopt the euro at all.Some 23 percent of respondents said they would prefer to wait longer before joining the monetary union. Twenty-five percent of respondents did not have a view.
Half of those who opposed dropping the zloty expressed traditional attachment or the view each country should have its own currency, while 27 percent said having its own currency will help Poland's economy develop.
PBS polled a statistically representative group of 1,012 people on February 10-12.
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