What Is the Future of the European Union?

Anquiratin: Paper money had been this kind of nationalistic thing, a place where our country would put pictures of their heroes and their landmarks. But the point of the europe was to transcend nationalism, to build this single, unified europe. So when the architects of the burea announced a contest to design the new bank notes, they added a rule, no national heroes or national symbols or national landmarks. The winner, he said, was an austrian, bank note designer named robert calina. Inthe calina designs, there was no ifel tower, no famous author or general or queen. Instead, calina chose the most inoffensive symbols imaginable.