BIS Review 3/1999  –4– Question: Mr President and Mr Vice-President, is the ECB aware of the fact that in several or many European commercial banks to exchange paper money at the counter now between two euroland currencies is more expensive than before, significantly more expensive than before? Duisenberg: I wasn’t aware of that fact.
Question (translation): Mr Duisenberg, over the past few days there have been a whole range of issues of government paper on the European capital market. How do you assess this wave of issuing activity?