Euro entry criteria - we are halfway there already

LETTER - A letter published in the London edition of the Financial Times, 13 November.

Sir, In your editorial "Tests for the euro" (November 7), you suggest that, with long-term interest rates "almost identical", there are only two criteria the UK need look at regarding euro entry: convergence in economic cycles and the entry rate of sterling. In talking about economic cycles, however, you fail to acknowledge a key finding of a large and expanding body of work: that convergence is achieved

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