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In 1996 Yannos Papantoniou took on the dual roles of Greece’s minister for national economy and finance. His major achievement in that office has been to make his country a viable candidate for membership of the EU’s single-currency system, a status it expects to achieve in 2001.
The 49-year-old economist, a Cambridge University PhD with other degrees from universities in Greece, France and the US, submitted his six-year economic convergence programme to the EU in 1994.
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