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| | A farewell to calculators: Europe begins its one-month countdown to a new currency era Questions and answers about the ... |
 | | A place like Trier, the German city across the Mosel River from Wasserbillig, makes an evocative backdrop for the historical drama that lies behind the abandonment of all those francs, marks, guilders, drachmas, escudos, pesetas, lire, schillings and punts. |
 | | Here, history's monuments range from the towering Porta Nigra, the town gate of flened sandstone built by the Romans in the 4th century, to the house where Karl Marx was born in 1818. |
 | | The individual countries have wide latitude in taxation and labor regulations - meaning that while trade and currency barriers have fallen, Europe is far from a single set of economic rules. |
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