The minister highlighted that the current tendencies of the economy were favourable for the euro adoption and vice versa – the euro adoption was favourable for the country's economy.
"The membership in the eurozone is the acknowledgment of the country's reliability. We will not gain this acknowledgement, if we are not treated as the reliable. Now the economy growth is favourable for the euro adoption and vice versa – the euro adoption would be favourable for our economy as well," said the minister in the conference of Lithuanian Business Confederation called Euro and the 2014 Budget: What to Expect Next Year.
According Sadzius, Lithuania in the context of the Maastricht criteria seemed favourable because it was forecasted that the budget deficit at the end of the year was to reach 2.9 percent and the state's finances should be balanced in 2016.
"This strive and this tendency and not the primitive existence in the 3 percent framework are the persuasive factor which persuades our partners in the European Union (EU) and especially in the eurozone that we are the reliable economy which would not bring the ticking bomb in the eurozone, which would not cause the problems and which would not force to cast around how to solve the problems," said Sadzius.
