How I was wrong about the euro

Posted on: 29, May, 2011

This Transitions Online piece is fascinating – as south-eastern Europe has changed, the location of “Europe” or “the West” has swung around all over the place. Once upon a time, Bulgarians and Romanians looked at Yugoslavia as the future, a better version of their own society, and both a reasonable substitute for Germany or Italy and a transit route on the way there. People watched Yugoslav TV illegally. Then, the earthquake, the nightmare. Nobod...

Tags: a fistful of euros , economics currencies , the european union , transition and accession , euro

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