Duda: Poland should adopt euro when salaries are at EU levels

According to President Andrzej Duda, Poland should join the euro zone when Poles average salary gets closer to the EU’s average. “I have always looked at it more from a life perspective and in my personal conviction, we should enter the euro zone when the average Pole's earnings in Poland more or less approach the average in the EU, only then we can really think about it to move to the euro so that the Poles earn fair salaries in euro,” President Andrzej Duda said during the World Economic Forum in Davos. At the same event, PM Mateusz Morawiecki said that “he is not In a Wednesday interview with Bloomberg agency, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki referred to the issue of joining the monetary union. He stated, among others, that he is “not convinced that the problems of the euro are over” and between Poland and the euro zone countries “there is no convergence yet.” He added that Poland needs “successive years of strong economic growth” to reach 80-90 percent of the disposable income richer euro zone members enjoy.