Thursday, December 23, 2010

Italy’s Padoa Schioppa, architect of euro, dies

By NICOLE WINFIELD | Published: 7:49 AM 12/19/2010 | Updated: 12:50 PM 12/19/2010

In this photo taken Sept. 3, 2010, Tommaso Padoa Schioppa attends the "Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy" economic forum, at Villa d'Este, in Cernobbio, on the Como Lake, Italy. Italian economist Tommaso Padoa Schioppa, one of the intellectual architects of the euro and a member of the European Central Bank's first executive board, has died at age 70. Padoa Schioppa, economy minister under Premier Romano Prodi, died Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010 after suffering a heart attack during a dinner with friends, an unexpected passing that stunned Italy's political and business elite. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)



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