• Chairman of Social Democrats, Jiri Paroubek, stated that year 2013 could be taken as a boundary date for euro adoption. Also, year 2012 is possible, according to Paroubek, but it should not be taken as a final date.
• Czech Republic is going to sue European Commission because of emission allowances. Government started process with uncertain result due to allowances allocation, as it received 14.8% less against the amount it requested.
• According to Polish president Kaczynski, EU could block Russia’s entry into World Trade Organisation, if they hold their refusal of meat and agriculture products imports from Poland.
• Sales of existing houses in the USA surprisingly decreased to 5.99m in April while expectations were for increase of sales to 6.14m houses.