As you all know the main story gripping the financial press has been the trouble caused by gyrations in the value of European currencies. Can you imagine the pain suffered by Greeks whose currency has devalued 50% against the Deutsche Mark in just a month? Also, if Berlusconi wasn't too busy with Bunga Bunga perhaps the plunge in the Lira wouldn't be so terrible. Maybe if the single European currency thought about in the 1980s was adopted, we wouldn't be seeing such problems.