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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Most of them are ugly as fuck
I love design D with the recording and spectrograph of the bird calls as anti-copy measures.
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.
And the important stuff they ram down our throats
These ones are fire, but its a bit weird to have an American born woman in the euro notes.
If Canada joins the EU, the noble Turkey can appear on the $1 euro note.
Ich_iel had this
Perfect, the 50EUR should be straight banana.
Somebody should make a similar one with a tilting window
Does anyone find tilting windows annoying?
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.
disagree. I love them.
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???
Meh, I am not in the EU but have these bottle caps. The initial annoyance is easy to overcome and I love it.
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
First country to do dinosaurs get me as a citizen.
Monkey’s paw curls:
I mean, technically…
I know I’m commenting on a bird community. But I don’t want all the notes to have birds & buildings.
The other design is much worse though.
There’s really only 2 options: birds and select few people. Why though? What’s wrong with the current notes? Can’t we have more than 2 options? I hate both of them.
I guess some people in Brussels have to justify their positions and spend millions doing so.
I’m perfectly happy with the current design and I also wouldn’t mind the birds but the EU institutes on the other side I do mind. It’s just where the EU is governed from and that’s really not important and just stokes the ego of the people sitting there. Put something significant on it.
There were votes a few years ago. The two variants are the result of those.
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.
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 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.
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:
- 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 definitely like the birds more than the fictional bridges
Veetical designs ftw. I want vertical bills so mich:3
Done. I feel bad saying I hate the other designs, but I am sure they’re going to grade these scaled.
I also hope 1 of the bird designs wins
