The Euro Reviews

We are Euro peein --------££££££-------- Next years election is just around the corner and I'm lobbying for Labour theme tune should be Tina Turners 'We don't need another zero' - after the dreadful state of the UK's GDP, we are very close to the Trillion mark so by next year our debt would elapse that. - So spending 40 million a day on ...  Read the complete review

Britain contributes £40 million pounds a day to the European Union. Forty million pounds a DAY!!! For that we the British taxpayers get little back in subsidy and the EU lawyers and politicians fill their boots with it. Recently we were losing that much an hour as the pound collapsed against other foreign currencies. When sterling was ...  Read the complete review

As my own personal view, I'm sceptical of joining the Euro, but believe that it should not necessarily be ruled out. Although of course things in financial markets change all the time, at the moment the pound has fallen sharply against the Euro, and the dollar, which causes great instability for some businesses. For businesses that have ...  Read the complete review

This debate has been going for years now but it still isn't an easy question to answer for a whole raft of reasons. There are economic issues, political issues, and 'national pride' issues to take into consideration. For that reason I am going to keep this quite short (I hope lol!) and try to keep it as simple as possible, without losing the ...  Read the complete review

The point of the Euro is to make currency in Europe simpler by having one currency. This sounds like a good plan in theory because of the removed hassle of exchanging currency and the rates of exchange and so on. If you were travelling all over Europe, you'd have to exchange very often, and you could lose money from exchanging. Most ...  Read the complete review

I am against the euro, I simply like the fact we are unique to other foreign countries with our own set of currency, we are british and we reside on a small island which is increasingly expanding, but I think we should stay the same. Ever since the talk of this I have always been worried about the effects this will have on us, I believe the ...  Read the complete review

I don't want the Euro here. It's simple. I don't want the UK to just become a small country in Europe with no power at all. The Pound keeps the UK fairly unique, especially when all the other countries jump at the chance of joining the Euro. Sometimes part of the fun of going on holiday to Europe is using the Euro, and converting it and ...  Read the complete review

The pound and the euro. The pound is truly British, and is something that makes us stand out from the rest of the world. The euro is the currency the EU wish to use to become a single market, and has become the currency of many European nations. There has been debate as to whether Britain should switch from the pound to the euro, however ...  Read the complete review

Yes adopting the euro increased the cost of life of the other european countries only because THEIR RESPECTIVE CURRENCIES VALUE WAS INFERIOR TO THE EURO.
So those who fear for an increase in the cost of life in Britain should stop worrying, i think the opposite will happen.
British will then realize how much they are being ripped off. Using the same currency as the rest of Europe will make you realize the difference of price for any given good and the arbitrary inflation FOR NO REASON.

I think that we should never never agree to the euro. Everywhere that you visit in europe that has gone over to the euro the prices have rocketed. If you talk to people that rememember decimalization, they will gladly tell you that prices of everyday goods were all rounded up, making a huge difference to the cost of living for the ...  Read the complete review

From the point of view of simplicity, changing over to the Euro may seem like a good idea. In times past, travelling around Europe one had to change currency more often than your socks. This was a nightmare. Now, most of those problems have gone in most member states. However, this is not to suggest that the Euro is right for Britain. It ...  Read the complete review

The Euro is the currency of twelve European Union countries, stretching from the Mediterranean to the Arctic Circle. Euro banknotes and coins have been in circulation since 1 January 2002 and are now a part of daily life for over 300 million Europeans living in the euro area. But what do we mean when we talk about the Euro. As we all know a coin ...  Read the complete review

i think there is one thing that 100% correct here, the current state of UK manufacturing is that of one getting shafted - badly. The advantages of one single currency are not seen to clearly in europe at the moment - especially with most manufacturing going to china - one of the reasons for this is that europes labour laws aren't very flexible, ...  Read the complete review

The Euro isn't a much talked about thing in the UK right now. Thats why i am writing this, it pretty much proves my argument. The Euro debate has been won by the "No" camp. Everyone knows Tony Blair would like us to join up to the Euro. His counterpart Gordon Brown "won't join until economic ...  Read the complete review

from the day, and before, the euro was introduced in spain, i can safely say from first hand experience that we here in spain have definitely not benefitted from it's introduction...it seemed as if they just changed the expression at the end of the number from pesetas to euros & centimos. instead of being 250 pts it became 2.50 euros which in ...  Read the complete review

This is the first time I have entered the darkened world of political debate. But in the current climate I thought it was about time I spoke on a matter that I am interested in. The Euro War will soon be taking place, people for and against will battle out and then we the people will decide whether to join the rest of Europe or become a ...  Read the complete review

When I wanted some Euros to give my grandsons I went to my bank - HSBC who said - "we don't keep them. It will take 2 days!" I couldn't believe that in this day & age a major high street bank doesn't keep Euros. I then went to Thomas Cook, asked for 60 Euros & offered my switch card to pay for them. Sorry madam ...  Read the complete review

I have been reading the various opinions expressed about the Euro over the past couple of years. I have been loathe to add my ha'p'thy (sorry, 0.33 of a Cent) but I feel the time has come. I just can't put up with the total b******t being spouted by the anti-Euro lobby any longer. So what has happened since almost everyone ...  Read the complete review

I thought a perspective from an American traveller might be refreshing and interesting to some of you people. I am not here to teach economics 101 so I am going to shy away from the advantages of joining with the Euro from the position of the result to direct foreign investment and trade or even the numeristic intrigue. I am going to write about ...  Read the complete review

Advantages: The first significant advantage which membership to the EURO brings is the fact that it will eliminate transaction costs of converting national currencies. The first implication of this is lower prices to EU consumers of products imported and exported within the EU. As a result of this, the rate of inflation should fall, ...  Read the complete review