...the euro zone in 2009, central bank chief Ivan Sramko said on Tuesday.
The EU's statistical service, the Eurostat, has been in talks with Slovakia on revising the budget figures.
Sramko also told an economic conference that he viewed the crown currency as having been relatively stable in the past few weeks, and that the economy was in an optimal condition to meet all the euro entry criteria.
[BRATISLAVA/Reuters/Finance.cz]