Brussels, 22/07/2016 (Agence Europe) - In a press release published on Friday 22 July, the European Central Bank announced a drop in the counterfeiting of euro banknotes in the first half of 2016.
During this period, some 331,000 forged notes were withdrawn from circulation, representing a drop of 25% compared to the second half of 2015. The ECB explains that this figure is very low in terms of the increasing volume of genuine notes in circulation (more than 18.5 billion in the first half...