with the matter said. Barclays will propose Solbes for its board at a meeting June 13, the spokesman said. Solbes, 68, was intimately involved in the creation of the euro currency as European commissioner for economic and monetary affairs from 1999 to 2004. He was then named Spanish finance minister in the Socialist government of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, a post he held until 2009. Barclays is in the process of reducing its retail banking operations in Spain by shutting 120 branches and cutting 700 jobs. The bank is trying to refocus the business, which was hard hit by the collapse of the country's Hennequin said he would choose pillows over macarons--pastries produced by Lenotre--when it comes to investments. However, the company would like to continue working with the caterer, which supplies food for the company's high-end hotels, he added. Accor has shed assets over the years in order to focus resources on the hotels business, most notably its vouchers divind efficient tools are urgently needed to treat patients in endemic countries. MAIN FACTS: - The partners will facilitate publication of the results to ensure access to the wider community of researchers focusing on neglected tropical diseases. - The public sector will benefit from the drugs developed through this agreement under the best possible conditions to ease access for patients in all endemic countries, irrespective of their level of economic development. - DNDi is a not-for-profit product development partnership working to research and develop new treatments for negle