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Yes, Canada has a legal path to E.U. membership – but would it want this?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (16 children)

Well that's cool, then. I don't know anything about EU process or regulations.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

The denominations are fixed: 0.01, 0.02, 0.05, 0.10, 0.20, 0.50, 1 and 2 for coins, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 and 500 for bills (although I've read the 200 and 500 had ceased production).

Every country can mint coins with bespoke faces, even limites editions, for commemorations and special events. Spain uses the Sagrada Familia for their lower denomination coins and the king's image for higher, Greece reproduced an ancient dracma in their 1€ coin, Italy as used the Vitruvian Man, France has the Republic in their coins, etc. Enough room for each country to express their roots and values.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

That's interesting, thank you. I have another question, more for curiosity than anything else: Canada got rid of its 0.01 coin – if we became part of the EU, would we have to bring that back?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And a fun thing to do is to pick through your coins in your pocket and see the designs and where they're from. I currently live in Italy and we have a lot of Italian designs, of course, but also from all over. I hope one of yours will just have a maple leaf on it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I'm hoping that, if this all does come to pass, we can put a loon on our 1 Euro coin and a polar bear on the 2 Euro coin. That's currently our tradition and it would be nice to continue it. Of course, a maple leaf is already on all of our coins so it stands to reason that that would also continue.

All that to say: if we were to join, you would more than likely get your wish. :3

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