We have decided that we will fulfill the Maastricht criteria as a country. We had the courage to go through the reforms that made it possible. Even unpopular measures, such as the health care package, in order to fill the public finance deficit below 3 percent of GDP. And we have also taken some steps that make life easier for those who move internationally with their business, and that is that we have enabled companies to do business in euros and thus pay you wages in euros, said Prime Minister Fiala after the last day of the government.
These are all steps that the government is asking, and I know that the government will be able to decide on the same outline whether it is suitable for the Czech Republic to join the euro in the fifth election period or not. We cannot make such a decision at this time, because we must first fulfill the Maastricht criteria, said the Prime Minister.
In the House of Commons, a round table was held on Thursday under the chairmanship of the Budget Committee, Josef Bernard from STAN, in the dark. One of his members was Oldich Ddek, former vice-governor of the Czech National Bank and former national coordinator for the introduction of the euro in Czech Republic.
There were concerns in every country before joining the euro, then the euro won the support of the population
Every country that ever joined the Eurozone was afraid of drinking the Euro. But the post won the support of the local residents, said Ddek. He illustrated this on the basis of the Baltic states, where satisfaction with the euro is currently one of the highest in the eurozone after a lot of skepticism.
Accepting the euro, according to the president of the company Petrof and member of the National Economic Council of the government Zuzana Ceralov Petrofov, would make it clear that it belongs to the West. She declared the adoption of the euro as a logical step. According to him, it would send the position of Escap to political decision-makers in the EU. She added to the advantages that the euro would bring, in addition to the attractiveness of the eska among foreign, but also domestic investors.
I will stop the view that the euro would be suitable for our economy, and I will stop this view in the coming years in the political discussion with all my heart, said this week f STAN and Minister of the Interior Vt Rakuan.
Only those who do not have the euro are dissatisfied, including President Pavel
Both Fiala and Rakuan responded to President Petr Pavel. If we want to dictate the direction, we have to sit behind the wheel, and not in the passenger seat. The more we get involved, the more influence we will have. If we want to play in the imaginary first league, it is logical to drink euros, for example. The experience of the countries that have a salary confirms that only those who do not have it are dissatisfied, said President Pavel at the conference 20 years of esca in the EU: Vision for a reborn Europe.
This is completely out of the question, the chairman of the late SPD movement, Tomio Okamura, spilled it in the House of Representatives on Thursday.
In his recent speech, Pavel called for politicians to take steps to drink euros. The former president and founder of the ODS, Vclav Klaus, rejected it most vehemently at the time, according to him, a referendum should precede the adoption of the euro.
Klaus openly admitted this week that he voted against the referendum on the accession of the Czech Republic to the EU. And since then, he has been more and more opposed to forms of European integration and to a common European nation.
ANO collected signatures for a petition against the euro
The YES movement is thus opposed to the euro. The ANO movement collected 26,440 signatures for a petition against drinking euros and for the preservation of the Czech crown. We refuse to drink euros. The debt of the Czech Republic compared to the euro area is half, said ANO Member of Parliament Alena Schillerov recently at a press conference in the House of Representatives. We know that most of the ruling parties support drinking, she said.
The coalition did not agree on the euro in this electoral period. In Norway, only the government coalition agreed to get an analysis from the government’s National Economic Council on whether it is appropriate to join the European exchange rate system ERM II. The analysis should be completed in June.
The referendum on the euro was strictly rejected by the ex-premier and the Eurocommission Vladimr Pidla. In my opinion, if you were to take it seriously, it would have to be a referendum on leaving the EU, because we accepted the euro in the referendum we entered the EU, he said.
He added that the question was whether we want to join the European Union under the conditions defined in the European Treaty. And there it is, that we drink the euro. The referendum on the euro will certainly not take place, because the treaty we entered into was ratified by all EU parliaments. This means that the contract would have to be completely renegotiated and it would have to be ratified again by all parliaments, Pidla told iDNES.cz.
