Yves-Thibault de Silguy, Commissioner for Economic Affairs, has decided not to run in France's regional elections so as to concentrate fully on his EU job. The man responsible for steering the single currency to completion had run into criticism at the EU over his plan to run in a regional poll in March in Brittany, where he is from.
Reuters, Brussels
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