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Wim Duisenberg, the former head of the European Central Bank, has been found dead in a pool at his villa in south-east France, French police say. Police have not yet given a cause for his death, but say he was found on Sunday morning in the town of Faucon. The former Dutch finance minister was the ECB's first president, and oversaw the introduction of the single European currency, the euro. The 70-year-old had stepped down in 2003 after five years in the job. Under Mr Duisenberg, the euro moved from a market-traded currency to coins and notes in the pockets...

The wife of the European Central Bank chief has left Amsterdam for her holiday home in France after outraging her Jewish neighbours by draping a Palestinian flag over her balcony and blaming Palestinian's woes on an "elite club of rich American Jews".Wim Duisenberg's wife, Gretta, told a Dutch newspaper that she had received a death threat because of her support for the Palestinians.But her departure has done little to mollify her Jewish neighbours on Diepenbrockstraat, a well-to-do street not far from Anne Frank's house.Hedda Rothstein, who lost many relatives during the Nazi purge of Amsterdam's Jews in 1944, can see...

AMSTERDAM, May 29 (IslamOnline) – The Jewish Union in Holland, a non-government organization which represents Dutch Jews, announced Monday, May 27, that they are going to present a complaint to the preliminary court in Amsterdam in order to sue Greta Duisenberg, wife of the European Central Bank for being “anti-Semitic”. Duisenberg hung the Palestinian flag outside the balcony of her home in Amsterdam, which angered the Dutch media known for its bias towards Israel. The media has attacked pro-Palestinian demonstrations and have tried to pressure the Dutch government to reassess its attitude regarding the Palestinian crisis. Here lives a neo-nazi...