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The Polish flag: national sovereignty often gets tangled up with eurozone membership at popular level (Photo: European Commission Audiovisual Library)

Risky climate around Poland euro referendum plans

Poland risks fresh tensions with Brussels over plans to hold a referendum on joining the euro in 2010, with the country's president planning to launch the event personally three years from now.

"In 2010, as it has been announced, the president will hold a referendum [and]...the final decision will be made by the people," finance minister Zyta Gilowska said in Warsaw on Friday (10 November) a few days after president Lech Kaczynski said in London "I am more eurosceptic than my brother [t...

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

The Polish flag: national sovereignty often gets tangled up with eurozone membership at popular level (Photo: European Commission Audiovisual Library)

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

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