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PARIS (Thomson Financial) - European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet will meet French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris this evening, the ECB and the Elysee palace said.

Trichet is due to appear before the Attali commission, which was set up by Sarkozy to identify obstacles to French economic growth, at the French Senate at 5.30 pm and he will hold talks with Sarkozy after this, they said.

They could not say whether Trichet or Sarkozy would make any comments after the meeting.

Trichet regularly holds talks with European heads of state and government but this is understood to be his first such meeting with Sarkozy since the French president's election in May.

Sarkozy has regularly complained about the euro's appreciation and criticised ECB interest rate hikes.


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