This is the link without the need to click the YouTube video first: https://survey.ecb.europa.eu/euro-banknote-survey
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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Awesome, I voted for the space theme.
Oof sounds like one employee there had a good idea (birds), but others were jealous and pushed to have multiple ideas and let citizens vote.
It's going to be birds, Karen. Stop talking about your beach and grains of sand.
Yeah, of all the themes in there, birds is by far the best one. Birds are beautiful, there's a link to Europe itself, it's really hard to exclude anyone.
I just hope that pigeons don't make it onto any denomination. Fucking pests.
Unless they're white, then they're a symbol for peace and get invited to weddings.
The survey is more than abstract and it looks like someone made it in a very old version of Microsoft Frontpage. Also, why didn't they add ALL the EU member countries in the demographic questions is beyond my understanding: it's not like they didn't have space! I'm from Romania and it's not present in the list.. does that mean we're out?
Why would you get a vote if you are not even a user of the Euro?
There are cyrillic letters on the current euro banknotes just for the case that Bulgaria joins some day. There was even a big discussion if it should be EBPO (pronounced evro) or EYPO (pronounced euro). They stopped using countries on the coins for the same reason. Everything is designed with expansion in mind, thats why they should also have a say in the design. See also: Bulgaria wins victory in "evro" battle (2007) and Cyrillic alphabet makes first appearance on euro notes (2013)
Why do we need new designs, exactly? Never mind that I rarely look at my money closely enough to care all that much what it looks like.
I'm assuming they are updating the security features to make them as counterfeit-proof as possible. Giving them a new design makes it easier to tell the old ones and the new ones apart.
That would be an explanation I could accept. Would be nice if Mme Lagarde said anything to that effect in the video.
I have to admit that I didn't watch the whole video, I just assumed based on the last redesign. But I looked into it and apparently there are several reasons besides security reasons, among them making the banknotes more sustainable and environmentally friendly.
Not European so no horse in the race, but most of these ideas suck. Just go with the birds I guess, birds are pretty and tried and tested and timeless. Rivers a close second.
Birds are cool, I want to ~~pay with~~ have bird-money.