21.   In Vienna, Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel and visiting European Commission President Romano Prodi plan to use their euro cash to buy flowers for their wives.

22.   In Vienna, Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel and visiting European Commission President Romano Prodi used their euro cash to buy flowers for their wives.

23.   All euro cash is valid in all euro-zone countries.

24.   And in Vienna, Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel and visiting European Commission President Romano Prodi plan to use euro cash to buy bunches of flowers for their wives.

25.   At celebrations marking euro cash on Monday, ECB chief Duisenberg paid tribute to the vision of many of the political leaders who had made the single currency possible.

26.   But she needed to try three cash distributors and two banks before she was able to get her hands on any euro cash.

27.   But the focus of the conference was likely to be the hitherto successful rollout of euro cash.

28.   But the take-up of the euro cash on the high street has been slow.

29.   But there have been fears that the introduction of euro cash could reignite inflation as retailers use the switchover to push through hidden price rises.

30.   But the head of BNP-Paribas, the second-biggest French banking group, suggested that European monetary officials had underestimated the amount of euro cash needed.