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The Euro
Dizer writes: "Today sees the historic introduction of the new European Currency (Euro) into European hands. The Eurozone market, with a population
of 300 million people, will be cashing in their Punts, Francs and Deutschmarks in favour of the new common Euro currency. This is the biggest currency transition in history, vive l'Europe! See stories on
ireland.com or the BBC."
I know it is the first new currency for ages, but why did they have to invent a new currency symbol which isnt on US keyboards, older european keyboards or existing fonts installed on systems and printers.
There are umpteen little symbols on the normal keyboard, and they could have used a few letters as they have done in the past "SFr", "DM" to give us "e$" or something like [e500] that would even avoid all those mime encoding errors you get with UK pounds where £ maps to %163 and the currency value gets screwed up.
sigh.
-stv
On that note, scanning this thread one finds a mind-numbing array of ignorance and misconceptions about Europe
Scanning this tread also reveals a mind-numbing amount of European prejudice and ignorance about America, presumably from Europeans. Not only do Europeans seem to have these xenophobic and parochial attitudes, but they also seem to feel compelled to display them at every opportunity, furthering the impression that they are both ignorant and ill-mannered.
It's sad, really that attitudes of Europeans prevalent since the discovery of America towards the "colonies" still persist some 500 years later.
erhmmm.... when was the last time you experienced a Frenchman willingly learn German?
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You are fucking dumb like all british people.
Euro doesn't mean loss of independence
Damn ignorant british people
Stick your queen up your *** !!!
Wow, an arrogant american, who would have thought. One of the reasons UK has not adopted the Euro is there paramount arrogance? YOUR money looks mickey mouse, or like monopoly money, since it is all one colour! Boring....
Time goes on. Economies rise and fall, or at least cycle. The Euro economy will go through a low part of the cycle, or a depression-type thing, and all of Europe will be down.
Before, it was just Germany, or Italy, or France, that could be having a bad economic time at a certain snapshot of history. Sure, usually the European economies follow each other pretty much, but not always. However, with all countries linked at their core by the Euro - ALL European countries (That use the Euro anyway) will be in a depression at the same time. Hard to recover from.
I think it's a really stupid idea, and will end in tears or war. And this is coming from someone who is really not affected by this, as I live in the United States. But you people in Europe should really be careful, your government, or the Euro-people, somebody anyway, is really pulling the wool over your eyes when it comes to the long term prospects for the European economy. Dangerous experiment, have fun!
most of the people here think that the euro sucks big time. It is a huge spill of money . Also they gave the label to it that is was very hard to copy the eurobiljets-- yeah right it is already been done for several times. I hope this will be a flop and they go back to our normal kind of money "the Guilder" greetingzzzz
"Today sees the historic introduction of the new European Currency (Euro) into European hands. The Eurozone market, with a population of 300 million people, will be cashing in their Punts, Francs and Deutschmarks in favour of the new common Euro currency. This is the biggest currency transition in history, vive l'Europe!"
You may think that with this move, you gain some kind of unitive power, but in actuality, you lose all individuality and a great deal of control over your own economy.
You guys are doomed.