Poland: New government set to delay EMU membership

Foreign investors concerned about the effect on bond prices.

Poland’s new
political elite:
President Lech (l) 
and his brother
Jaroslaw Kaczynski



The policies of Poland’s new government could have a detrimental impact on the country’s goal of joining the euro by 2010, analysts say. This, in turn, is expected to have a negative effect on the country’s domestic debt, which had been taken up by an influx of non-resident buyers in the past 12 months on the expectation of a post-election outlook favourable for EMU convergence.

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