Is The Euro A "colossal Error"?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33863913

[ichkeria]

"At least,ichy,those weren't a mickey mouse currency. "

You're allowed to speak English, by the way.
Lira millionaires, like our friend's friend above, could buy a bottle of water and a biscuit before running out of cash. That has something of the air of Michael Mouse about it ...

[Jackdaw33]

//At least,ichy,those weren't a mickey mouse currency.//

I think the lira came pretty close, being one step up from Monopoly money.

[ichkeria]

"However I will probably have nightmares of me sharing a bed with Hollande!!!!"

Might be crowded in there ...

[jourdain2]

Of course it was a colossal error. When I moved to France people were always asking me why the UK wouldn't join the eurozone - I fudged answers. When I left they were all saying how wise we had been.

The whole EU is wrongly thought-out. Individual nation states bound to each other by treaties would work - political unity is impossible I.M.O. and the sooner we disentangle ourselves, the better.

[ichkeria]

" Individual nation states bound to each other by treaties would work"

That idea proved rather disastrous around about 1914 :-)

[ukbod2015]

When the Euro was first muted I thought well maybe that will sort out the currency speculators as they can knock individual currencies around but not one used by 15 or more countries. However as so many countries have been let in without properly qualifying for the financial requirements its all unravelling. We dont seem to have managed to badly being on the outside looking in.

[jourdain2]

Ich - you know as well as I that it was piecemeal treaties which combined to cause the 'problems' in 1914 and I think you are being a bit naughty in not realising that I am talking about something like a modern 'grand treaty' whereby the whole lot of countries involved in Europe could promise something simple like 'I won't attack any of you and will work with you as far as I can without threatening my own state'. Politicians can make it 'proper' - I'm not one and it's late so I'm not going to start. Nice try though :o)

[ToraToraTora]

what about if we all got together and had trading agreements and general cooperation, we could call it "The Common Market".......hang on!

[ToraToraTora]

so it's our fault then methyl! right oh! we ain't even in it but It's all our fault it's a bag of merde. What a strange dimension you Euphiles inhabit!