"I think, if that offer ever comes, as president already talked about it, we are waiting for an offer. To speculate on what we will do in case of the offer is very hard. But I would say, if it's a good offer, we'll do it," the Estonian president told a press conference on Monday.
Meanwhile Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė added that "we definitely cannot blame our neighbors for what we don't manage to do ourselves."
The Estonian President also discussed priorities of the forthcoming Lithuanian EU presidency with Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday and said Estonia would put focus on the same priorities.
"We are all very excited about the upcoming Lithuanian presidency, because of the priorities that you have set for your presidency. If it'd be our presidency, we would have set the same priorities ranging from energy to the digital single market and, of course, of extreme importance for all of us is the Eastern Partnership," Ilves told a press conference.
Talking about the Eastern Partnership, he stressed that the EU has done a lot for this program but that was not enough as participating countries also have to do their part.
Talking about the euro zone, Ilves says Estonia sees only benefits in having the common currency.
In his words, euro introduction brought both positive economic consequences as well as "philosophical-political" perks.
"When the Estonian finance minister goes to Brussels and sits in the euro group, they all discuss and worry about the euro. When the Lithuanian or Latvian finance minister goes to Brussels, he doesn't sit at the meeting in the euro group and he still worries about the euro. And then he also has the additional worry about what will happen to the litas or lat," Ilves told the press conference.
The Government of Lithuania plans to introduce the euro in 2015.
