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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7719

18 May 2000
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/greece
Drachma will enter Euro zone, asserts rapporteur Mr. Goebbels, in anticipating vote by plenary

Strasbourg, 17/05/2000 (Agence Europe) - Greece "will be" the twelfth Euro partner: it must not "angle for" an accession to which the improvement of its economy (true convergence, stability, openness to foreign capital, opening-up of the stock market) allows. With these very clear remarks, the Economic Committee rapporteur, Robert Goebbels (Socialist, Luxembourg) invited the plenary session to approve the entry of the Drachma into the Euro. Obviously, the situation is not perfect and efforts...

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