101.  A single market must ultimately lead to a single currency.

102.  A single currency might make borrowing easier for other AAA-rated European borrowers, as well.

103.  A Socialist victory in French elections also led to speculation that the single currency may be weak.

104.  Adopting the single currency, to be called the euro, could change that.

105.  After all, the French and Germans have provided plenty of heartburn for American officials through the years over trade and monetary problems even without possessing a single currency.

106.  Add interest rates that are low and expected to stay that way, plus the coming single European currency, and investors pay attention.

107.  Agreement between the four-party coalition is crucial because the budget will determine whether Belgium is among the first group of European Union countries to adopt a single currency.

108.  Already, the phasing in of the single currency, begun in January, is being regarded as a catalyst for recent big banking deals.

109.  Britain, Denmark and Sweden opted not to participate in the single unified currency, and Greece failed to meet the required economic criteria.

110.  Britain has declined to join since the single currency was first mooted almost a decade ago, and the issue has become one of the most divisive.