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The European Union needs to strengthen its capital markets if it wants to see the euro become a global reserve currency, senior ECB officials said today.

The ECB could support the use of that process by helping to improve the eurozone’s financial infrastructure, said Benoît Cœuré, a member of the European Central Bank’s executive board.

His words were echoed by ECB president Mario Draghi, writing in the central bank’s annual report on the euro’s international use.

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