{"id":305859,"date":"2026-01-27T08:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T08:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/305859\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T08:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T08:45:14","slug":"poland-were-doing-better-without-the-euro-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/305859\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland: We&#8217;re doing better without the euro, thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>One week after Poland\u2019s President described the European Union as a \u201cdying star\u201d, the country\u2019s Finance Minister Andrzej Doma\u0144ski tells <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/b4c07b4d-dd15-4a42-b744-ea4b5f6966ee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Financial Times<\/a> that his country is in \u201cno hurry to join the Eurozone\u201d because the economy is doing better with the zloty.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The central command at the EU Commission can\u2019t have been happy. At a time when de-industrialisaton, energy insecurity, economic stagnation and rising populism is making the bloc increasingly vulnerable, the Poles are essentially saying their economy is better off without the single currency. Not exactly a vote of confidence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Get unlimited access to Gript<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One week after Poland\u2019s President described the European Union as a \u201cdying star\u201d, the country\u2019s Finance Minister Andrzej&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,150227,17919,19,17,150228,379,150229],"class_list":{"0":"post-305859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-eu-is-dying-star","11":"tag-eurozone","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-no-hurry-to-adopt-euro","15":"tag-poland","16":"tag-president-nawrocki"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115966189542083711","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}