37% of Irish bosses believe Britain ‘will never adopt euro’

TWO-IN-FIVE company bosses in Ireland believe Britain will never adopt the euro currency.

A year ago just one-in-four chief executives of Irish companies thought that Britain would never become part of euroland, according to the latest CB Richard Ellis Gunne annual survey of the chief executives of the top 1,000 companies in Ireland.

The survey found 37% of those who responded to the survey in 2004 expect that Britain will never entereuroland compared with 25% last year.