Special report by Albin Birger
It was in Frankfurt-am-Main in Germany on 1 June 1998. After much upheaval and a fair dose of scepticism, a new structure was added to the EU's institutional framework that would stand the test of time - the European Central Bank (ECB). Barely a week after the date they officially started work, the ECB's main bodies, the General Council and the Governing Council, were meeting for the first time at the Eurotower headquarters, chaired by Dutch national Wim...