If you check with any of the head hunting company's in Poland, salaries decreased across the board by 30% on new hires 2008 into 2009. Most company's have used the F C as a reason not to increase salaries, in the meantime the PLN sunk and the price of imported goods increased.
Have you any links for these, please?
No control of money supply = bad times.
It depends, now of course you are correct, more control over a more risky currency has helped but that is mainly luck of timing as regards the PLN.
The Euro is more stable and has less fluctuations, more control over a more risky currency is not the same as more stability on a currency overall.
It still is cheaper but the EURO has a spiral tendency.
PLN has much greater spiral tendencies.
Trust me, everything would shoot up under the EURO and the poor would suffer greatly.
I come from a Euro country, it literally happened overnight.