French tourists flash their euro banknotes at a restaurant in Rome.
Photograph: Corrado Giambalvo/AP
Four years after the introduction of the euro, the demand for euro banknotes has remained surprisingly high, the European Central Bank reported in its 200-page monthly bulletin.
Part of this has to do with demand for euros from outside the eurozone, no doubt to do with holidaymakers leaving the zone with wads of cash they can use the next time they're in Tuscany or Provence.
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