28/03/2001 (Agence Europe) - European Parliament President Nicole Fontaine pleaded in favour of a "good perception" of the euro, in Antibes, where she met company bosses and retailers, of whom she asked to resist, at the time of the introduction of the single currency, the temptation to round off prices upwards (we can also "round off downwards", she said). Then, in Milan, she met blind people, among whom Luca Bergmaschi, Professor at the Institute of the Blind, who said that the euro "will be easier to handle for the blind than the current lira". Finally, in an interview with Sole-24 of Milan, she doubted the use of creating a "Mr. or Ms. Euro", considering that it would tend to complicate things.