11/07/2008 (Agence Europe) - A total of 312,000 counterfeit euro banknotes were withdrawn from circulation in the first half of 2008, the European Central bank (EIB) announced on Thursday 10 July. Although this figure is up 5.4% on the previous six months, the number of counterfeits recovered has not varied greatly over the last few years, and the number of genuine banknotes in circulation has increased by 5.7% since the second half of 2007 (there were on average 11.5 billion genuine notes...