Polish leaders have broken silence over a concrete date they plan for the country's entry into the euro, setting out 2009 for the start of talks and 2011 as a potential target to join Europe's single currency.
Prime minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz told foreign journalists earlier this week that Warsaw should be able to meet the budget criteria by next year, adding that it already recorded a budget deficit below 3 percent of GDP in 2005 and this year, according to fresh official data.
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