Subject: Re: EU or not on the Euro<br/>
Date: Sep 20, 2002 @ 09:25<br/>
Author: anorak222 (&quot;anorak222&quot; &lt;listen@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-685893078">--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., &quot;Peter Smaardijk&quot; &lt;smaardijk@y...&gt; wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Anyway, within Europe no borders are drawn on the banknote. <br/>
&gt; Malta and Cyprus will have to be added anyway when they ultimately <br/>
&gt; become euro-users (they will become EU members pretty soon).<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Actually the map on the coins is supposed to show EU member <br/>
countries, regardless if they use the Euro or not (whilst the <br/>
banknotes show a map of Europe, the continent; luckily that won&#39;t <br/>
change soon). Thus the next time round the coin map will have to <br/>
change quite a bit more than just adding two islands, since there&#39;s a <br/>
large group of joiners. Scheduled for 2004 are Poland, Slovenia, <br/>
Czech Republic, Hungary, Estonia and Cyprus. Malta actually not yet. <br/>
The date when these countries become Euro users ought to be <br/>
irrelevant if the designers follow the same pattern as before.<br/>
<br/>
Table of EU-members current and future<br/>
======================================<br/>
Country    Application   Negotiations    Actually joined<br/>
            Presented     Began         (or scheduled to) <br/>
----------------------------------------------------------<br/>
Belgium                                      1957<br/>
Bulgaria    12/1995        2000              2008<br/>
Debnarj                                      1973<br/>
Germany                                    1957/1990<br/>
Estonia     11/1995        1998              2004<br/>
Finland                                      1995<br/>
France                                       1957<br/>
Greece                                       1981<br/>
UK                                           1973<br/>
Ireland                                      1973<br/>
Italy                                        1957<br/>
Latvia      10/1995        2000              2006<br/>
Lithuania   12/1995        2000              2006<br/>
Luxembourg                                   1957<br/>
Malta                      1999              2006<br/>
Netherlands                                  1957<br/>
Austria                                      1995<br/>
Poland      04/1994        1998              2004<br/>
Portugal                                     1986<br/>
Romania     06/1995        2000              2008<br/>
Sweden                                       1995<br/>
Spain                                        1986<br/>
Slovakia    06/1995        2000              2006<br/>
Slovenia    06/1996        1998              2004<br/>
Czechia     01/1996        1998              2004<br/>
Turkey      04/1987        ----               ?<br/>
Hungary     03/1994        1998              2004<br/>
Cyprus      07/1990        1998              2004<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Here in the Netherlands there was a bit of a mini-row over the not <br/>
&gt; showing of some Dutch islands on the banknote. I recall that the <br/>
&gt; island of Texel was added to the illustration after a complaint <br/>
 </span></blockquote>(the <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; island is hardly discernible on the banknote)<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>I can&#39;t see it, but I believe you :). Why just Texel? Because it&#39;s <br/>
the largest? The German and Danish North Sea islands don&#39;t seem to be <br/>
there either, even though they&#39;re in the same order of magnitude. ... <br/>
Man we&#39;re lucky Greece didn&#39;t complain about her islands missing. :)<br/>
<br/>
Regards</div>