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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7961

10 May 2001
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/euro
Distribution of euro tokens to familiarize the blind, deaf and mentally handicapped

Brussels, 09/05/2001 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday, the European Commission announced the distribution in the euro zone of 37,000 sets of eight euro tokens to the blind, deaf and mentally handicapped. At a ceremony organised in Brussels in the framework of Euro-Week, Commissioner Pedro Solbes, responsible for economic and monetary affairs, handed out the first samples of these training tokens to representatives of the groups concerned. It is a question of tokens manufactured by the relevant...

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