06/10/2006 (Agence Europe) - On 4 October the Lithuanian government adopted a financial and macro-economic stabilisation plan, which reiterated, without precisions, its goal of adopting the Euro “as soon as possible”. The press statement explained that 2010 still, however, appeared like the most likely date for Lithuania's entry into the Euro zone, adding that the government would be proposing an agreement to political parties on budgetary discipline in an effort to establish measures needed for stability and include them in the country's convergence programme for 2006. Vilnius is also asking the Lithuanian central bank to closely monitor the expansion of credit, an element on which Commissioner Almunia highlighted during his visit to Vilnius at the beginning of the week (EUROPE 9277).