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German Chancellor Helmut Kohl (L) of the Christian Democratic Party CDU and Bavarian Premier Edmund Stoiber of the Christian Social Union CSU use different facial impressions during the opening speech of the Bavarian Entrepeneur Congress here 01 July. Kohl and Stoiber would not make any comments concerning the dispute of the European single currency, it was announced. Last week, Stoiber embarrassed the government by calling for a delay in the single currency effective date if the economic convergence criteria are not strictly met.