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*** Euro/Gulf/OECD: On a visit to Dubai, former Commission President (and now MEP) Jacques Santer called on the Gulf States to label their exports of crude oil in euro in order to stabilise the oil market. Furthermore, an OECD report on financial markets states that the weakness of the euro is in part due the success of the European currency on bonds markets in the Euro Zone, success that has contributed to the development of...