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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8638

5 February 2004
Contents Publication in full By article 22 / 56
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/enlargement/economy

04/02/2004 (Agence Europe) - In an interview to the German weekly, Wirtschaftswochen, which comes out on Thursdays, Commissioner Pedro Solbes said that EU enlargement would complicate the task of the European Commission and the European Central Bank (ECB) due to the high interest rates in some of the accession countries (notably 7.5% in Slovenia, 5.3% in Hungary). If they are seeking to adopt the Euro, the new Member States will have to ensure that their inflation rate does not go above the...

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