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...Italian politics and, partly for that reason, he ended up on a collision course with government leaders over economic policy and the architecture of the E.U.'s institutions. Worse, Prodi had an unfortunate knack for miscommunication - even when he was right, as he arguably was when he called the euro-zone deficit limits "stupid." Perhaps his bigger problem was faltering support for the E.U. in the capitals of Europe. "It was a lot easier being Commission President when you had Mitterrand, Kohl and Andreotti pushing the Union from the capitals," sighs a top Prodi confidante. Delors disagrees; after...
JURGEN STORBECK, director of police agency Europol, on the increasing amount of counterfeit currency. In late June, French officials uncovered €1.8 million worth of fake euro bills near Paris
...over bureaucracy” are as old as the Magna Carta, and they continue now in the form of the rising U.K. Independence Party, which, like the Tories, is quite happy with the Pound and doesn’t want to be bossed around by countries that use the Euro, thank you very much...
...sure what it means to be “British” any more than did, for instance, my cabdriver the other night. “I dunno,” he said. “The red-and-white flags always come out around the Euro.” Unlike the currency of the same name, the ongoing Euro soccer—er, football—tournament draws out the best (and, as evidenced by the occasional riot, the worst) national excitement the country has to offer. That enthusiasm doesn’t jibe with the British reputation...
...Number of Thai gamblers who have crossed into Cambodia to bet on Euro 2004 matches, according to Thai police...