At a special ECOFIN dinner to pay tribute to his leadership on 29 October Wim Duisenberg of the ECB said the challenges for EMU over the next five years are every bit as great as those already faced. I am fortunate enough not to have to deal with them, Duisenberg said. I have done my bit, as well as I could. This is where I "pass the buck". It now falls to my successor, Jean-Claude Trichet, and to you to do your best to make sure that in the end history judges our new, shared currency to be a