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THE French accent of the EU finance commissioner Yves-Thibault de Silguy, created not a little amusement for the dour denizens…

THE French accent of the EU finance commissioner Yves-Thibault de Silguy, created not a little amusement for the dour denizens of our financial world when he was in Dublin last week. He spoke of erotic currency fluctuations about central banking being a very important part of EMU and added that the introduction of the Euro was of course a millstone for, Europe.

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