Paris, 19/02/2002 (Agence Europe) - Speaking in Paris on Monday at the end of a symposium on "The French and their Currency", the French Minister of the Economy and Finance, Laurent Fabius, recalled the limits to the co-ordination of economic policies in Europe. "Whereas we have federal bodies at monetary level - with the role handed to the European Central Bank - co-ordination of our economic policies remains inadequate", he declared, adding that: "we must therefore, in the near future, notably extend the brief of the President of the Eurogroup, discuss systematically within that group structural issues and that of policy-mix, and introduce an ever-closer dialogue with the ECB around shared objectives".