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The 87-year-old believes the dollar, the yuan and the euro will rule the world in 20 years' time (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

D'Estaing: eurozone should shut its doors after Poland

Former French president Valery Giscard d'Estaing has said the eurozone should stop enlarging after Poland joins in order to create a "hard core" in the EU.

The 87-year-old politician, who also helped draft the EU's defunct constitution, later reborn as the Lisbon Treaty, spoke in an interview in the Polish edition of Newsweek magazine published on Monday (25 March).

He said: "I think the process of accepting new countries to the eurozone should be frozen. We cannot afford another ...

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

The 87-year-old believes the dollar, the yuan and the euro will rule the world in 20 years' time (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

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