Re: Spain in a 'state of total emergency' ?
 

Always has done. Look at the list and you will see Belgian Franc, Dutch Guilder, Spanish Peseta etc. etc. all at their original Euro rate. So read nothing into that.

Re: Spain in a 'state of total emergency' ?
 

You're probably right, but the Telegraph had something similar today also...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/d...isis-live.html

Re: Spain in a 'state of total emergency' ?
 

or will be in the arms of POTUS at Thanksgiving

Re: Spain in a 'state of total emergency' ?
 

Converts 1€ to 340.6541 drachmas on my screen and 166.3392 Pesetas.

Re: Spain in a 'state of total emergency' ?
 

I'd be more worried about THIS than Twitter rumours!

Re: Spain in a 'state of total emergency' ?
 

It's ironic that the Balkans troubles in the 90s turned up at just the right time to save the Spanish tourist industry. Here we go again?
I don't think (and I hope I'm right) that there won't be enough extremists to start the wars up again, although a simmering situation, like northern Ireland used to be, may be the outcome. Apart from anything else, the Serbs should now realise that the last thing they need is to attract further 1000s of Islamic jihadis to go over in support of their Kosovan brothers.

Re: Spain in a 'state of total emergency' ?
 

Also like the Northern Ireland situation it will never fully go away too much hatred between these groups, it will simmer away then rear it's ugly head again and again.

Re: Spain in a 'state of total emergency' ?
 

Shit. Not again?

Re: Spain in a 'state of total emergency' ?
 

Euro's future to be decided within weeks

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2...cided-in-weeks

Re: Spain in a 'state of total emergency' ?
 

This is the first step along the path isn't it?

Re: Spain in a 'state of total emergency' ?
 

THIS is the reality. The world has always had trouble spots, it's a big place. It will survive by plodding on regardless. Our last century had more people killed in wars than ever before - the first dozen years of this one have been 'relatively' peaceful.

The Balkans are a tiny, bombed out place the rest of us have forgotten.

I can't predict the future for Spain and the Euro, but the Balkans will have sweet f-all to do with the outcome.

Re: Spain in a 'state of total emergency' ?
 

Very interesting article and the other related ones too including the one about Spanish Banks needing so much funding. We moved from the peseta to the euro successfully in one day...and although having the euro has made spending around Europe so much easier I think financially we ought to return to the peseta.

Re: Spain in a 'state of total emergency' ?
 

Not strictly true. The Euro was introduced on January 1 1999 but didn't enter circulation for three years in 2002.

A change back to the peseta is much more complicated than printing some notes and putting them into an ATM.

Re: Spain in a 'state of total emergency' ?
 

It was strictly true in our village...the elderly had no idea of all the changes going on leading up to the day when we changed but they just started using euros, with a bit of a nostalgic moan about the peseta, with no problem at all. The Euro was a geat idea for member nations but due to the complete and utter difference in work ethic and attitude it was doomed to failure...

Re: Spain in a 'state of total emergency' ?
 

These three Spanish experts think the complete opposite, that at best adopting the peseta would take Spain back to the 50's. The article reckons Spain has only itself to blame, it needs to stop thinking it is being victimised, stop feeling sorry for itself, stop blaming everyone else for it's problems.(it has received more money than anyone from the EU) Interestingly, the article says they should forget about "populismo", about Gibraltar, more Spanish move to London every year than the entire population of Gib.
http://elpais.com/elpais/2012/05/31/...92_453958.html