European Commission President Jacques Santer (R) and European Monetary Affairs Yves-Thibault de Silguy (L) unveil a billboard displaying the rates at which 11 European currencies will be locked against the new euro single currency at the end of a special council session of European Union finance ministers in Brussels December 31. [EU finance ministers announced the rates at which the 11 nations monies - the currencies of Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain - will be convertible into euro from January 1.] ??»