"Maria oversaw the formation of this trust, bringing together three disparate organisations into one service, and its subsequent development, " he said.

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"At the root of the euro upheaval is a balance of payment crisis caused by the cumulative effects of a 13-year-old one-size-fits-all monetary policy and a fixed exchange rate for a collection of disparate countries in very different stages of economic and structural development, " he argues.

WSJ: Fiction of the EU Summit's Accepted 'Facts'