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Originally Posted by Dudesky
I thought they all have the Euro which is valued on the whole of the European states and valued accordingly, right?
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The Euro as a currency is with the same value, the issue is that in every country the GDP is different depending on many different things, not to mention that the labour laws, working laws, banks laws are country specific NOT Europe specific. So what you have is one currency and many different cultures with different approach, customs etc. This system was designed to fail from the start. In the beginning the Germans were buying cars from Italy because the same let say Mercedes was 30% cheaper in Italy than in Germany. You can't have different minimum pay, different cost of living and expect all the country to develop the same way. This is just plain stupid. When they changed the Italian lira to Euro effectively we lost about 30% of our net over night. Ever since then Italy is with negative balance. This was the worst thing that happen to my motherland...after this idiot Berlusconi of course.