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Every European (and I guess non-Europeans as well) can vote what our next Euro design will be: https://surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/neweuro/
About ten different designs are available and about half of them feature birds instead of boring people.
I really like the bird designs as they symbolise freedom without borders. Hope one of them gets chosen in the end.
Ich_iel had this
Explain the joke plz?
It’s a PET bottle lid that is attached to the bottle so you don’t lose it, a unique piece of their culture I guess lol
And an annoying one. Gets in the way, and makes screwing the cap back on harder because it keeps pulling it.
Meh, I am not in the EU but have these bottle caps. The initial annoyance is easy to overcome and I love it.
disagree. I love them.
The EU introduced a policy mandating that plastic lids must be permanently attached to bottles, which came into effect a year or so ago.
The law has been controversial. While some hail it for keeping the environment free of lids, others find the attached lids cumbersome.
Personally, I feel that the lid is not cumbersome at all (just flip the lid over and drink from the other side to avoid splashing?), and having fewer lonely bottle caps littered everywhere is generally quite good!
And if people dislike the lids enough to avoid drinking from single-use plastic bottles, hey, that's another benefit! Especially for regions where the tap water is drinkable (e.g. Germany)
I much prefer the birds over the people =w=
I mean, most of the people on there have 0 relevancy to my country, and I imagine it's not an uncommon sentiment elsewhere. Birds at least don't exclude a bunch of countries
I also quite like the vertical/portrait orientation designs in there, I think it would be a cool change
I tell you 100% of those people have 0 relevancy to my and many other EU countries
Funny, I was about to say I've never seen a single one of the spieces depicted in the image. 😂
Well the 50 is a white stork, actually the national bird of my country :3 we have (or used to have back when I learned it in school) the highest nesting density of storks :3 and also a holiday about celebrating storks
The others I believe are:
I've seen a few of those in the wild, but definitely not all :3
FYI, Design B has the names of the birds printed on the notes, and you're correct about all of them.
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknotes/future_banknotes/html/design-proposals.en.html
Portugal? All the storks and enormous nests balanced on everything is hilarious, I love it.
Lithuania :3
We have the same thing with stork nests on everything tho
That would be my bird criticism too. I recognized 4/6 people on the notes but have no idea what these birds are or where they live. I would expect crows, magpies, swallows, seagulls or even those green parakeets that are technically invasive but are all over Europe.
It's crazy and unacceptable we didn't get a corvid.
I definitely like the birds more than the fictional bridges
Makes sense, since money also isn’t real.
There's a reason they call it a flock of cameras.
Birds > people
Putting actual people on banknotes... Have we learned nothing from metoo? WTF?!
Eels said it best: "I like birds"
Been listening to that song the whole time I was voting.
Im not even that big on birds but the bird designs are so much better than the people ones and also in general i dont think people on banknotes are that good of an idea. Birds on the other hand are something we can all relate to and should think about more cause many species are in danger.
Many of the people designs felt like they were for a corporate convention/seminar, or maybe a local library, not an EU banknote. Bravo to them for trying something new, but on the other hand, ew.
And most of the bird designs had buildings 😢
Of course, the birds need toilets!
Not most of them, all had buildings, and it's always the same buildings, too. The buildings are those of the seven official institutions of the EU.
Personally, once I figured that out (and it took me a minute), I much preferred the buildings to the seemingly random scenes on the backs of designs with the famous people. One of the designs also shows the names of the institutions (and birds), which I particularly liked.
I like that the bank is more valuable than the commission and the parliament.
I think the reasoning is probably opposite to that, because there are more of the smaller notes in circulation. So you'll probably see multiple 5€ every day, but you'll rarely see a 200€ unless you work in banking or organized crime. I also vaguely remember a survey from years back that showed that the 5€ note is the most popular one.
First country to do dinosaurs get me as a citizen.
I mean, technically....
The downside is that there would be buildings on the other side of the bank notes.
Yeah that could be heavy to carry around.
Better than whatever bullshit the other option is. People on EU banknotes are just not okay since they still represent a country and also wtf is the shit on the back of those human notes supposed to even be??
stylistically, some of them are really pretty, some of them are really ugly.
as others have said, i think people are a bad idea, unless they have all kinds of local or special editions like with coins.
i think birds are kinda cool. not sure why only birds as animals, and not other animals too. i would have also liked trees or other plants, or even mushrooms. but oh well.
i don't like having people on bank notes because it is really hard to pick which ones are inportant, and you can't choose enough of them, many people will get left out. also, i don't like the idea of worshipping people.
I love design D with the recording and spectrograph of the bird calls as anti-copy measures.
We did our part for the birds <3
It’s weird how they want faces now when the bridges on the current notes are specifically chosen to be fantasy bridges so they are nationally ambiguous. Also don’t see why Maria Callas deserves a spot as if she had such an important impact on European history. It’s like putting DJ Tiësto on the notes in 50 years.
The birds are the better choice.
Boobies, Great Tits, Bushtits, Dickcissel, Cock-of-the-rock. There are so many options!
I like the birds, never been a fan of the faces on the bills.
Belarus had these in nineties: https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/postalovsky_a/32225144/1739419/1739419_900.jpg
I also hope 1 of the bird designs wins
I wish they had different animals. Like birds for the 5€ (light), bears for the 200€ (heavy), and different animals in between.
And for the back famous art paintings.
I love how many of these designs are clearly influenced by the old Dutch Guilders bank note designs. See this for a documentary about it on YouTube.
