2023-08-23 01:35:28
Wednesday, August 23, 2023, 01:35
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“This is my signature, but it is your money,” says the president of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde, while showing the camera a 50-euro bill. The ECB has decided that it is time to renew them again and has opened a consultation period so that, through the respective national central banks, we Europeans can decide what the banknotes that will begin to circulate in 2026 will be like.
In principle, the ECB will maintain the current denominations (5, 10, 20, 50, 100 and 200 euros and “it is also very likely that the sizes and colors will remain current to facilitate change and limit the costs of adaptation of the banknote processing machines”. What will vary and on what Lagarde invites us to express our opinion are the reasons that appear in them and with which he wants the EU to be identified.
To guide the selection process, a committee of experts has limited the possibilities to six topics that the participants in the survey they should indicate to what extent they believe they display values that represent the EU or will have significance in the future. Each of the themes is accompanied by a brief description of the idea to which it is associated and an example of what the design could be if it were among the favourites.
Thus, there are some very obvious ones such as the possibility of using monuments as a representation of European culture, hands to evoke “human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and human rights” or rivers to “unite the natural wonders of Europe with a broader message about interconnection and sustainability” and other more abstract ones such as using birds to evoke “freedom and resilience”.
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