Europeans should be able to identify better with their banknotes. The European Central Bank (ECB) is therefore going to design new euro notes, which it expects to present in 2024 announced on Monday. “After 20 years, it is time to review our euro notes and make them more recognizable to Europeans of all ages and backgrounds,” said ECB President Christine Lagarde in a press statement. The ECB wants to design notes that citizens can “be proud of”, added Fabio Panetta, member of the Governing Council of the central bank.
Like in the run-up to the introduction of the euro, citizens will start thinking about the new designs. Ultimately, an advisory group of academics, artists and designers from eurozone countries will decide on the final design of the new notes.
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The current banknotes, which have been in circulation since the introduction of the euro in 2002, are often qualified as hardly recognizable. The Austrian designer Robert Kalina may have reflected architectural styles from Europe in the images on the banknotes, but not in the form of existing buildings. At the time, they wanted to prevent certain countries from feeling disadvantaged if ‘their’ buildings did not end up on the notes.
The Dutch artist Robin Stam thought it was a shame that non-existent bridges were on the euro notes and realized in 2013 the project Bridges of Europe, where he had the bridges that were finished on euro notes copied in Spijkernisse. It is still unknown whether real buildings will appear on the future banknotes.
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