21.   With a few exceptions, the euro launch did not encourage price gouging, experts say.

22.   Italian newspapers have also been printing stories of crooks who prey upon mainly elderly people with different scams linked to the euro launch.

23.   No cases of nickel allergies have been reported elsewhere in Spain since the euro launch, however.

24.   One unwelcome side effect of the euro launch was abusive price hikes which occasionally took place during conversions to the single currency.

25.   On Tuesday French Finance Minister Laurent Fabius urged bank unions to demonstrate responsibility after they maintained their call for a strike to coincide with the euro launch.

26.   Planned bank and postal service strikes threaten to disrupt the euro launch, as unions seek better pay and more staff.

27.   The boss a major French supermarket chain claimed on Saturday that the euro launch had transformed shopkeepers into a huge foreign exchange operation.

28.   The European Consumers Association has also not found higher prices as a result of the euro launch, the commissioner said.

29.   The euro launch has met with a few critical comments, concerning price hikes in particular.

30.   The euro cash launch has already been marked by several French labor actions in the past few months.