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*** Euro/Vatican: Italian Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini and his counterpart for the Holy See, Mgr Jean-Louis Tauran, signed an agreement on 29 December enabling the Vatican to make the euro its official currency simultaneously with Italy, i.e. from 1 January 2002. The Vatican spokesman, Joaquin Navarro-Valls, stated that the Vatican would abide by the same timeframe as the Italian Republic for the introduction of the single...