19/12/2008 (Agence Europe) - Meeting on Tuesday 16 December 2008, the European Parliament adopted several reports on protecting the single currency, like a report by Gerard Deprez (ALDE, Belgium) on measures to protect the euro against counterfeiting and extending the measures to the member states that have not joined the euro; and reports by Eoin Ryan (UEN, Ireland) changing measures in an EU regulation on medals and tokens similar to euro coins and extending the regulation to member states that have not joined the euro. (A.By/transl.fl)