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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7999

5 July 2001
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/ecb
MEPs concerned about preparing citizens for changeover to euro

Strasbourg, 04/07/2001 (Agence Europe) - In the debate that followed the annual plenary statement of ECB President Wim Duisenberg, on Tuesday, several MEPs expressed doubt about the state of preparedness of citizens for changeover to the euro, and some confirmed their conviction that the introduction of the euro would coincide with a price rise (such was the case of Mr Gollnisch, National Front, and Messrs Blokland and Butel, from the Europe of Democracies and Diversities Group), but a...

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