
As a result of present and past efforts, euro adoption for Latvia in 2014 appears within reach, the International Monetary Fund says in its Concluding Statement of the IMF Mission.
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It also adds that Latvia’s accession to the euro area would remove residual currency risk and, by addressing vulnerabilities stemming from foreign-currency exposures, enhance the stability of the already highly euroized financial system.
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http://latvia.eu/news/euro-adoption-latvia-2014-within-reach-imf
Poland is drafting a timetable for joining the euro and its economy will be ready for accession in 2015, President Bronislaw Komorowski was quoted as saying on Monday, a major vote of confidence in Europe's struggling single currency.
The comments by Komorowski were the strongest indication yet that policymakers in Poland, eastern Europe's biggest economy, were seriously considering a swift entry to the euro even though the euro zone is in the grip of a debt crisis.
"(Poland) is preparing an action plan that will be unveiled as a calendar for Polish preparations to enter the euro zone at the right moment," the official PAP news agency quoted Komorowski as saying on a visit to Italy.
"I am convinced we will achieve this ability of the Polish economy in 2015," he said.
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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/poland-drafting-timetable-joining-euro-president-215613053--business.html