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.
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Ich_iel had this
Somebody should make a similar one with a tilting window
Does anyone find tilting windows annoying?
It is extremely difficult for elderly (or anyone) with rheumatoid arthritis, arthroscopic injuries or just deteriorated hand grip, as most windows require a strong two-handed grip to open, tilt or close. I love them, but my elderly relatives require help from us relatives or home aides/helpers to even manage to ventilate their homes.
skill issue
No, I meant that from a different angle - both things have their purpose, but attached bottle caps is something that almost anyone you ask would find annoying.
Initially this was (I guess) more like some typical European things that are not common at all outside of Europe.
The bottle caps are not annoying unless you have decreased hand mobility or strength. Any young able-bodied guys complaining are just lazy or limp.
Perfect, the 50EUR should be straight banana.
Where gay banana?
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.
User error. There’s one extra screwing that people don’t do
I did this once or twice by accident. Would you be so kindkind as to explain?
After the cap is open, it can be twisted once more to extend
Oh that is by design???
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)
In the EU, water bottles are required to have the cap connected to the bottle (reduces waste of the bottle caps)
It’s quite interesting, when you go to a non EU governed area (like Norway or the Faroe Islands) the bottles no longer have the cap connected to the plastic ring bit
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
Honestly, I have not seen or heard anyone say, they would like the people on the notes. Those have to exist somewhere, since the people are even a suggestion - but if the design chosen is people, I will 100% believe someone high up specifically decided on it, over what was actually favored.
I much prefer the birds over the people
Same. I hate people
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:
- 5 - scarlet wallcreeper
- 10 - kingfisher
- 20 - european bee eater
- 100 - avocet
- 200 - northern gannet
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’s cool. Very much on my list of places to visit. Was in Portugal last week which is why that came to mind first.
It’s always interesting to me when people choose to visit here :3 I suppose cause all of it is quite standard to me lol
If you do come, I hope you visit more than just vilnius tho. A lot of people seem to just stick to it, and not see any of the rest of the country ^^
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 assume these are in the same order for everyone, but I loved the first set of vertical ones; the ones with might contrast. Most of the designs felt afraid to use color, since the note is supposed to be one color to identify them easily. I honestly think having the high contrast with the birds makes them easier to identify though. 90% of it was still the right color, so that’s still easy to see. Having the image stand out just gives it another identifiable piece though, which can’t hurt, and it makes them look so much prettier.
I believe they’re under the same letters for everyone. I’ll include the pictures just in case :3
For me “D”
Is my favourite overall, I love the bright colours on it, though I think the 20 maybe is a bit crowded, with the multiple birds and the security strip it all kinda clashes and you lose the shapes in the middle imo
The other vertical ones with birds (“I” and “J”) are my 2 runner ups, (I just think the vertical designs are cool :3), “J”
I think has better colours than “I”, and I like that the colouration of the birds is somewhat preserved in the accents on them both. “I”
Overall looks the most rustic/traditional, while “D” the most modern I think.
Yeah, they’re all good! For me, I is my favorite. J is a close second. I like that the birds all inhabit approximately the same location on J though, all entering that circle. It’s a nice touch. D I feel is too plain, but it may be slightly better functionally. It definitely looks more like currency. I is the most artistic and interesting I think.
I definitely like the birds more than the fictional bridges
Saying people like Marie Curie have no relevancy to your country just because they are not from your country is a wild statement. Maybe also the reason for why the idea of “Europeans” as a people is not working out yet.
Maybe also the reason for why the idea of “Europeans” as a people is not working out yet.
Now do US South and North.
Veetical designs ftw. I want vertical bills so mich: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.
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.
Makes sense, since money also isn’t real.
There’s a reason they call it a flock of cameras.
I like the birds, never been a fan of the faces on the bills.
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.
First country to do dinosaurs get me as a citizen.
I mean, technically…
Monkey’s paw curls:
I love design D with the recording and spectrograph of the bird calls as anti-copy measures.
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.
- 5€: European Parliament
- 10€: European Commission
- 20€: European Central Bank
- 50€: European Court of Justice
- 100€: European Council and Council of the EU (shared building)
- 200€: European Court of Auditors
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.
Yes, I saw someone on Mastodon say that birds have less and less habitat under the EU and that the notes are becoming the safest place for them at the moment .
We like the birds ones but the buildings on the back felt weird, so were leaning towards the ones with people and cultures
I don’t think any person deserves to be on the bills. The birds absolutely do !
I wish they weren’t systematically paired with horrifyingly bad architecture on the reverse, but I’ll take what I can get…
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.
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.
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??
I really do not understand why those people would represent just a country and not Europe. By the same logic, they may represent only their region, or their town.
Yeah and its a problem either way.
