RTXHRO5
31 Dec. 1998
Brussels, Belgium
European Central Bank President Wim Duisenberg shows a billboard displaying the rates at which 11 European currencies will be locked against the new euro single currency at the end of a special council session of European Union finance ministers in Brussels December 31.[ EU finance ministers announced the rates at which the 11 nations monies - the currencies of Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain - will be convertible into euro from January 1. ]
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