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Europeans can vote to have birds on their next banknotes (swg-empire.de)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/birding@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] 22 points 3 months ago (3 children)

And most of the bird designs had buildings 😢

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    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 .

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