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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9170

8 April 2006
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/informal eurogroupe
Member States seeking to join euro-zone must conform to rigorous application of adhesion criteria

Vienna, 07/04/2006 (Agence Europe) - In Vienna on 7 April for their half-yearly informal meeting, Finance Ministers from the euro-zone spoke about the enlargement of the zone to include new Member States, with Slovenia and Lithuania leading the way. Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the Eurogroupe, insisted on the rigorous application of convergence criteria, especially the inflation criterion. The Eurogroupe, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the European Commission also expressed their...

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