How do you want the new euro banknotes to look?

[BossaNova]

Politico website is running a poll on the theme people want for the new banknotes, I already voted for birds, I think they make a great theme, what do you think?



Vote here: https://www.politico.eu/euro-banknotes-poll/

A news on the subject: https://www.politico.eu/article/ecb-to- ... lar-input/

[lmviterbo]

Voted. "Fauna and flora."

[Arminius]

Europe has a long history concerning science, culture and arts. We should not ignore this.
I would like to see a famous portrait on the obverse and a related achievement on the reverse.

Regards

[BossaNova]

The problem of having specific faces or achievements is that they always come attached to a nationality and not all would be represented..

[ART]

I hope that with this new series we will finally find the courage to overcome the ordinary way of thinking to move to the federal one, where it is not necessary to represent a character, a place or a monument of each state (given that those selected, wherever they are born / are, they are common heritage of all).

In order to adopt a logical criterion, I would proceed like this: the denominations of the banknotes are 6 like the founding states of the European Community, therefore a character each who was decisive for the birth and development of that integration process enjoyed by the others who came later.

I would propose:

€ 5: Jean Monnet (France)

€ 10: Altiero Spinelli (Italy)

€ 20: Walter Hallstein (Germany)

€ 50: Paul-Henri Spaak (Belgium)

€ 100: Pierre Werner (Luxembourg)

€ 200: Johan Willem Beyen (Netherlands)

But there are many other possible combinations for the same States, even if not all of them are contemporary characters. I would indisputably keep only Monnet fixed, because he is the true founding father of the European community, what in another context we would call "father of the homeland".