long-term growth. >> what you're saying is the governments will push themselves further into debt in order to overcome the immediate food price crisis and that's going to be damaging. >> that could be the case, yeah. but, of course, it can come up with other kinds of reforms to compensate for that and longer term, as i said before, longer term growth prospects are very good for egypt because of demographics. so i don't think they're going to change dramatically, but for the next few years we could see it. >> okay. maarten-jan bakkum. many thanks. the euro is softening again. the euro had a bit of a down day on thursday but it's now up a tenth of a percent and the pound, a similar sort of picture. the yen, though, losing a little bit of ground, 81.57 is the