Euro spelling dispute still not solved

EU ambassadors gathered on Tuesday (12 October) to discuss the dispute over the spelling of the word euro.

Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta and Slovenia have demanded that a rule to uniformly use the word euro across the EU be scrapped as it does not make sense in their respective languages.

According to a compromise deal offered by the Dutch presidency, the word euro would remain unaltered on all translations of EU documents and on banknotes and coins, but in national documents...