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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8788

18 September 2004
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/emu
17/09/2004 (Agence Europe) - Gronicki says Poland will not join euro before 2009

Brussels, 17/09/2004 (Agence Europe) - Polish finance minister Miroslav Gronicki has announced that Poland will not join the euro before 2009. He told Reuters that Poland would be able to meet the Maastricht criteria in 2007, but would not join the ERM2 exchange rate mechanism until mid-2006 at the earliest. Since to join the euro, a country has to be a member of the exchange rate mechanism for at least two years, this means Poland could not join the euro until 2009. Assessing Poland's...

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