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  New euro coin map excludes Turkey

By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels
Last Updated: 12:45pm BST 26/09/2007

European Union officials have been accused of "political geography"
after Turkey, but not the Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova, disappeared from
a map of Europe designed for new euro coins.

A common design for the "tails side" of euro coins is to be rolled out
in 2008 with an updated graphic showing an enlarged EU and new
countries, such as Cyprus, that are joining the single currency.

Papers given to Euro-MPs under Brussels open information rules show that
the European Commission proposed a standard format map of Europe
extending as far as the Caspian Sea and including Turkey.

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