Fareastdriver
they would have just changed the currency with a variable exchange rate
exactly so! This is the biggest con of the whole Eurozone.
I am amazed how anyone can expect the same currency to "work" in Naples, Lisbon or Dublin in the same way as it does in Munich or Paris - let alone in Athens or Nicosia.
If you tell a lie big enough, and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.
Dr Joseph Goebbels