PRAGUE (Thomson Financial) - The Czech Republic's eurosceptic president, Vaclav Klaus, said he favoured a referendum on giving up the country's koruna currency and adopting the euro, in an article published on Saturday.
'Each currency is an important symbol of the country and that is why the people must decide whether or not they want to be deprived of this particularly important symbol,' Klaus said in a column in the newspaper Dnes.
'I am very critical of certain aspects of the euro,' said Klaus, a liberal economist.
The accession treaty by which the Czech Republic joined the European Union in May 2004 calls for adopting the euro, but it does not set any date for its adoption. tf.TFN-Europe_newsdesk@thomson.com afp/gp COPYRIGHT Copyright AFX News Limited 2007. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of AFX News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of AFX News.