US Treasury Secretary Paulson to visit ECB next week: spokeswoman

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2008

FRANKFURT (AFP) — US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson will meet with European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet here next week during the former's five-day tour of Europe, an ECB spokeswoman said Friday.

Paulson would visit the ECB headquarters on Tuesday, two days before the bank announces its latest decision on eurozone interest rates, widely expected to be a quarter-point increase to 4.25 percent.

The ECB spokeswoman did not say what Paulson and Trichet would discuss, but Paulson's office said Tuesday he would meet government officials in three countries and take part in talks on a range of economic and financial issues.

His June 29-July 3 tour was to include visits to Moscow, Berlin, Frankfurt and London.

Paulson's talks would cover the...

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