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Czech press survey.
(From Czech News Agency)
PRAGUE, Dec 1 (CTK) - The Czech Republic's EU entry on May 1 has been demonstrably advantageous for the country, "but this is not that unequivocal where the adoption of the euro is concerned," Martin Komarek writes in Mlada fronta Dnes today.
He comments on the government coalition's agreement on Tuesday to do the biggest cuts in the state budget since then Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus did in his packages of austerity measures in 1997. The saving is to amount to 70 billion crowns in 2006-07.
Komarek says that the criteria for its adoption are a burden even for big countries such as Germany, France or Greece.
"The country has however committed itself to introduce the euro in the treaty of accession. To request exceptions, to bargain or even cheat [like Greece did] is undignified and leads nowhere," Komarek writes.
"Agreements are to be honoured, the more so if they help treat chronic diseases such as deficit in this country," Komarek concludes.
The government coalition has pledged to save the 70 billion crowns not out of its pro-reform enthusiasm, but it has been forced to, and this is true whether someone considers the sum minimal such as Christian Democrat (KDU-CSL) leader Miroslav Kalousek or maximum such as Social Democrat Labour and Social Affairs Minister Zdenek Skromach, Martin Zverina writes in Lidove noviny.
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