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."

Comments

Re:Ireland *has* changed to the Euro

[Stone Rhino]

The story is from *BRUSSELS*. BRUSSELS is not in ireland. ireland is more or less a part of britain, and follows their economic policy.

Re:Coming from a store owner...

[Sanity]

Like theyd did in 1940 ??

Yeah, you know, now I see the light. Hitler's suicide was a hoax, he actually went underground where he started to work on his plan to take over Europe - and on the 1st of January 2002, the result of Hitler's planning, the Euro, is unleashed upon the world, but yet again, those trusty Brits (aided by the Danes and the Swedes) resist the Nazi hoardes leaving them free to do whatever Bush tells them to do.

Nightmarish "Progress"

[Baldrson]

The Euro will become worthless unless one of these two conditions are met:

1. It is tied to a commodity.
2. A pan-European government is put into place that demands payment of taxes in Euros.

The second is the more likely outcome, and it is nightmarish to contemplate for reasons that are even more compelling than the arguments for federalism in the United States:

European states do not have a unified language nor cultural history -- and even in the United States, where such disparities did not exist, the abandonment of the laboratory of the states was a major loss to humanity.