The Lithuanian government has written to the Dutch Presidency expressing outrage at a recent decision to standardise the word 'euro' across all EU languages, according to leaked documents seen by the EUobserver.
In the letter, addressed to Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende and copied to Commission President Romano Prodi, the Lithuanian government says it would "like to underline once again that the non-inflective form of the term 'euro' is unacceptable to the Lithuanian language...
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