Can our European members fill me in on the status of
Switzerland? With so many countries clammoring to join
the EU, many that may not even been European (Cyprus,
depending on who you talk to) an obviously European
country seems to be isolating itself. I know the Swiss
are very independently minded, but i mean come on!
Isn't it time to join the modern world? What do you
think?
VC
--- anorak222 <
listen@...> wrote:
> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Peter Smaardijk"
> <smaardijk@y...> wrote:
> > Anyway, within Europe no borders are drawn on the
> banknote.
> > Malta and Cyprus will have to be added anyway when
> they ultimately
> > become euro-users (they will become EU members
> pretty soon).
>
> Actually the map on the coins is supposed to show EU
> member
> countries, regardless if they use the Euro or not
> (whilst the
> banknotes show a map of Europe, the continent;
> luckily that won't
> change soon). Thus the next time round the coin map
> will have to
> change quite a bit more than just adding two
> islands, since there's a
> large group of joiners. Scheduled for 2004 are
> Poland, Slovenia,
> Czech Republic, Hungary, Estonia and Cyprus. Malta
> actually not yet.
> The date when these countries become Euro users
> ought to be
> irrelevant if the designers follow the same pattern
> as before.
>
> Table of EU-members current and future
> ======================================
> Country Application Negotiations Actually
> joined
> Presented Began (or
> scheduled to)
>
----------------------------------------------------------
> Belgium 1957
> Bulgaria 12/1995 2000 2008
> Debnarj 1973
> Germany 1957/1990
> Estonia 11/1995 1998 2004
> Finland 1995
> France 1957
> Greece 1981
> UK 1973
> Ireland 1973
> Italy 1957
> Latvia 10/1995 2000 2006
> Lithuania 12/1995 2000 2006
> Luxembourg 1957
> Malta 1999 2006
> Netherlands 1957
> Austria 1995
> Poland 04/1994 1998 2004
> Portugal 1986
> Romania 06/1995 2000 2008
> Sweden 1995
> Spain 1986
> Slovakia 06/1995 2000 2006
> Slovenia 06/1996 1998 2004
> Czechia 01/1996 1998 2004
> Turkey 04/1987 ---- ?
> Hungary 03/1994 1998 2004
> Cyprus 07/1990 1998 2004
>
>
> > Here in the Netherlands there was a bit of a
> mini-row over the not
> > showing of some Dutch islands on the banknote. I
> recall that the
> > island of Texel was added to the illustration
> after a complaint
> (the
> > island is hardly discernible on the banknote)
>
> I can't see it, but I believe you :). Why just
> Texel? Because it's
> the largest? The German and Danish North Sea islands
> don't seem to be
> there either, even though they're in the same order
> of magnitude. ...
> Man we're lucky Greece didn't complain about her
> islands missing. :)
>
> Regards
>
>
>
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