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Euro Timeline From Bretton Woods Agreement to ‘Fiscal Compact’

December 12, 2011, 8:02 AM EST

By Bloomberg

(See EXT4 <GO> for more on Europe’s debt crisis.)

Dec. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Following is a timeline of the key steps on the road to the euro currency, from the Bretton Woods conference in 1944 to last week’s agreement to set up a “fiscal compact” among countries using the single currency.

--With assistance from James G. Neuger in Brussels. Editors: Andrew Davis, Jones Hayden

To contact the reporter on this story: Jones Hayden in Brussels at jhayden1@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: John Fraher at jfraher@bloomberg.net

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