Braybuddy wrote:petertenthije wrote:It would be nice to see some better designs though. The current euro designs are quite bland, in particular the notes.
I tend to agree, but IIRC the winning designs were chosen by a committee made up of the EU central banks, so it's probably not surprising . It wouldn't cost anything to change them:
Using the example of airline liveries: any attempts to improve designs tend to end up looking worse than they were before. Also a lesson from airline business: aesthetics is the least of Euro's problems.
Last but not least: Any involvement of real people will inevitably cause counting of sexes, intense scrutiny of what they said (or didn't say) 60, 120 or 600 years ago, even more intense scrutiny of their alleged transgressions against today's standards, predictable whining of those not happy with underrepresentation of ethnicities and/or religions, etc., etc.
Current designs are not the most exciting ones, but we are paying with plastic money anyway... multicurrency prepaid cards like Revolut, make travel safer and easier, without the downsides of Euro.