Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-06-17-Speech-2-089"
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"Lithuania is a country that made a commitment in its Accession Agreement to adopt the euro. Every single time – that is, four times during our term – that we make a decision on whether to give the green light to one country or another to adopt the euro, we keep trying to upgrade the Maastricht criteria or explain them in a different way.
This tends to confirm the fact that we still have doubts regarding the implementation of these criteria. At the very beginning we, as representatives of Lithuania and representatives of other countries, suggested that these issues be dealt with on behalf and at the level of Parliament and the Council. However, all this time these suggestions have been turned down. Instead of sitting down to clarify the nuances and technicalities hindering the successful expansion of the euro area, we would rather play about by making separate, more or less of random decisions for each country.
I would like to point out that it is very clear that we must implement strict fiscal policy and that there is no way we might change our…"@en1
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