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Joe_5859
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This seems like such a small issue for the EU to get up in arms over.
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Brendan
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It’s the EU, they get all excited about what village you belong to when you make wine.This seems like such a small issue for the EU to get up in arms over.
So this is really no surprise.
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manualman
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LOL! Proof that catholicism is compatible with free enterprise and the entrepenuerial spirit!
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Godfollower
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What problem are they solving by passing these regulations?
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roanoker
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The main problem they solve with this avalance of silly rules is the problem of keeping themselves in work…Roanoker
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NewEnglandPriest
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Well the problem appears to be that the Vatican “collectable” coins aren’t simply collector’s coins but are genuine EU currency thus they fall under the regulatory rules of the EU.
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rcballi46
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The Vatican City State is a sovereign nation - and the Vatican can issue its own coins - regardless of what the EU (which is increasingly anti-Christian and more pro-Muslim - to their own detriment) wants. I’d urge the Vatican to continue to do what it wants and ignore the ‘request’ by the humanist and mostly irrelevant EU.This seems like such a small issue for the EU to get up in arms over.
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JohnT58
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Too true…Europe is full of faceless and unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats making up all sorts of irrelevent laws. The Vatican never told other EU countries what to put on the sides of their coins, why would they? Now the EU want to start bullying a non-EU city state. (the Vatcian is not in the EU, it only uses the currency as Itlay has adopted the Euro. The Vatican had agreements with Italy on currency issues before this, and it made sense to go the way of the Euro when Italy did. Similar arrangements work for Monaco and San Marino.)
Its all a bit petulent on the the behalf of the EU autocrats, who allow no end of commemoratvie coins including this childs drawing for 2009.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/€2_commemorative_coin_UEM_2009_General.jpg
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/%E2%82%AC2_commemorative_coin_UEM_2009_General.jpg
Seriously lads, nothing better to do and spend our tax-euros on?
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JohnT58
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PS, for anyone who cares, VOTE NO to LISBON.
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NewEnglandPriest
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While yes the Vatican is a sovereign nation, the currency it issues is EU currency. Thus it falls under their regulation. I agree that the EU is being petty on this issue but it does appear to fall under their regulation since it is their currency.
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manualman
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From a certain perspective, the EU has a point. Each member country presumably is allowed to produce a regulated numer of coins according to agreed upon values that presume each 1 Euro coin is worth, well, 1 Euro!
But if there is something special about the Vatican that makes collectors want to snatch up Vatican coins made during ‘vacant seat’ periods and pay the Vatican treasury more like 5 Euros for each 1 Euro coin, you can see why the jealousy erupts!
It’s actually a fairly comic reflection of economic attitudes. How typical of a socialist mentality to be jealous that a portion of the populace values something particular about Vatican coins instead of looking for ways to make something about their OWN coins more valuable to a certain populace…
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garysibio
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Re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
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victoria28
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The EU really should not be trusted, they want to take over all Europe
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victoria28
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:thumbsup:Your pictures a beautiful, thank you for sharing them.
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