On the next euro zone banknotes, currently under study, Leonardo da Vinci and Simone Veil would make good models, pleaded Thursday the boss of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde.
We must find great real Europeans throughout history so that we can recognize each other, noted the leader of the ECB, when asked about France Inter. Among the potential candidates, Christine Lagarde cited Leonardo DeVinci obviously, in the most recent Simone Veil clearly.
To suit all Europeans when it was introduced in 2002, the common currency was equipped with Romanesque or Gothic arches or even modern architectural elements on its seven banknotes. Twenty years later, the ECB announced in early December plans for new designs on euro banknotes by 2024.
Revolutionary new euro banknotes by 2024
The current illustrations represent the different eras of European history in a symbolic way, and have made it possible to avoid the Member States having to agree on a very limited number of major historical figures. The specifications for the first euro banknotes notably prohibited the use of any symbol of national identity such as portraits of famous people, usually used for national clippings.
Faces on tickets: 6 happy read?
The list of the future lucky ones will be very limited since there are now only six different denominations, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 and 200 euros, after the disappearance of the 500 euro note.
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Emblematic monuments of the continent could also be chosen for the next series, after the opinions received from a group of 19 experts, one per Member State of the euro zone, and from the public. The designer of the first banknotes, the former graphic designer of the Austrian central bank Robert Kalina, estimated for his part in a recent interview with AFP that great composers like Beethoven Where mozart, which cannot be reduced to a single country, could represent a good choice.
MoneyVox poll: Simone Veil in the lead
Which French personalities would you remember? The YouGov Institute for MoneyVox asked a panel of French people, MoneyVox’s request as part of our dossier on the 20th anniversary of the euro. Verdict: the trio of favorites is Simone Veil (41%), Pierre and Marie Curie (40%) and Charles de Gaulle (34%). Very far ahead of Thomas Pesquet (9%), Omar Sy (3%), Jean-Jacques Goldman (3%) or Zinedine Zidane (2%).
20 years of the euro: Veil, De Gaulle, Pesquet or Zidane on the next tickets?
(1) Survey YouGov for MoneyVox, conducted online on December 15 and 16, 2021, on a sample of 1,022 people representative of the adult French population.
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