The EEC faces up to the monetary crisis (20 July 1971)
Image On 20 July 1971, less than a month before the unilateral decision by the United States to suspend the convertibility of the dollar into gold, the Council of Finance Ministers of the Six debates possibilities for resolving the international monetary crisis. Mario Ferrari Aggradi (left), Italian Treasury Minister, meets Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, French Economy and Finance Minister and President-in-Office of the Ecofin Council.
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Source: La crise monétaire: négociations entre les "Six" à Bruxelles. Bruxelles: Keystone, 1971. Noir et blanc.
Copyright: (c) Keystone
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