A three-part series tracingthe history of the move towards a single European currency.
Economic and Monetary Union takes the final step next month when a summit chaired by Tony Blair chooses the countries that will adoptthe Euro. But the history of EMU has been plagued by controversy.
Following the collapse of the US dollar in 1968. General de Gaulle asked for France's stock of US dollars to be exchanged for gold. After a currency revaluation battle in Europe,
Raymond Barre , then vice-president of the European Commission, proposed a single currency in a bid to restore stability.
Contributors include ex-
French president Valery Giscard D'Estaing, Chancellors of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins and Denis Healey , and German
Chancellor Helmut Schmidt.
Producer Stephen Clarke ; Executive producers Mark Anderson and Brian Lapping