WARSAW (Reuters) - Lech Walesa, onetime leader of the pro-democracy Solidarity trade union that ended communism in Poland, said his country should join the euro zone to become fully free and safe from Russia, its former imperial overlord.
Though Walesa has no say in government decisions, he does have influence on public opinion in Poland and his remarks coincide with a growing view among policy-makers that Russia's intervention in Ukraine has boosted the case for euro entry.
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