PRAGUE, Feb 10 (Reuters) - The way European countries have responded to the financial crisis has deformed the euro zone, Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said on Tuesday.
"The response of the euro zone countries to the financial and economic crisis deformed the joint project of the euro more than any other imaginable event," Topolanek said in an online chat on the Czech EU presidency's Web site www.eru2009.cz.
"Most of the national states using the euro started breaking the common rules in their declarations as well as practical steps, while the basic anchor of the whole process is to adhere to these common rules." (Reporting by Jana Mlcochova)