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[Viewpoint]

Let's admit it guys.
This thing is ugly and actually tells Europe the best we the Cypriots can present are our pre-historic "ape like" sculptures.
Secondly the small "cross looking" necklace and the "cross looking" sculpture are provocative to the TCs. No excuses, no buts, no ifs.

I don’t understand Pyro…what wrong with the statue…I am proud of my country history. This statue is unique. You can not find something similar to anywhere else…what did you or VP wanted to put on our coins to please you, to be fair and represent our country?
Aphrodite?? Guess not – Greek ancient Goddess
Any particular place of the island?? Not again …we are going to have problems that is in the north or the south side…come on we are not kids here!!
Religion symbols…ok I am not going to make even a comment on that!
The face of politicians?? Heroes??? Nope!!!

As Sotos said…

How can something that is 5000 years old represent only the GCs? Christianity came just 2000 years ago! It represents Cypriots.

:roll: That is not a cross but part of our ancient history.

Should we forget about our whole Cypriot history

So what exactly VP and Pyros want for euro??

The Olive Tree
Oranges
Grapes
Bellapais
A castle
Cyprus (Shape)
anything but not a cross or moon and crescent, nothing that would make the either side uncomfortable. The crucifix is really pushing it in our faces, thank god we do not have to adopt it as our official currency.

[Piratis]

Olives, fruits and structures build by some of our rulers are nothing unique to Cyprus. Those statues are. And on those coins we were supposed to put something unique for Cyprus, not ... oranges!

Those statues represent the long history and civilization of our island and I would think that TCs would be glad that something even older than the long Greek History of our island was chosen.

I said it before and I will say it again: The Turks are trying not only to remove everything Greek and Christian from the occupied areas, but they are also trying to remove everything Cypriot as well. They do this by bringing in Cyprus 10s of thousands of mainland settlers, by brainwashing the TCs, and by terrorizing anybody that resists their effort to Turkify the north part of our country.

[tessintrnc]

What about the Mouflon? That is Cypriot 100% and should please every Cypriot?
Tess

[Viewpoint]

Olives, fruits and structures build by some of our rulers are nothing unique to Cyprus. Those statues are. And on those coins we were supposed to put something unique for Cyprus, not ... oranges!

Those statues represent the long history and civilization of our island and I would think that TCs would be glad that something even older than the long Greek History of our island was chosen.

I said it before and I will say it again: The Turks are trying not only to remove everything Greek and Christian from the occupied areas, but they are also trying to remove everything Cypriot as well. They do this by bringing in Cyprus 10s of thousands of mainland settlers, by brainwashing the TCs, and by terrorizing anybody that resists their effort to Turkify the north part of our country.

The thing is a cross and is direct provocation, if you cant see this then this says a lot more about you than me. This was a chance to keep things neutral and place something there that represents all Cypriots like the shape of the island maybe, do you object to that as well? Ho who cares its nothing to do with us, dont even know why Im bothering, put what the fuck you want it.

[Hiyar herif]

I think a picture of an olive tree would be ideal.

[observer]

Maybe it doesn't really matter anyway.

Enjoy your moment, all you apostles of the euro: this is as good as it’s doing to get. The accession of Slovenia last month brought membership of the single currency to 13, and I’m willing to bet that that’s as high as it’ll ever go.

A survey in the Financial Times this week showed that, throughout the euro-zone, large majorites hanker after their old currencies. The nostalgia is keenest at the Union’s core: nearly two thirds of Germans oppose the euro. The FT made no attempt to disguise its contempt for the doltishness of the common man. Its report began: “The euro-zone economy may be growing robustly, but its citizens appear not to expect significant financial gains as a result. They give scant credit to the eight-year-old euro for improving their national performances, an FT/Harris poll shows…”

But it’s not just the polls. Millions are simply opting out. A chunk of Bavaria is issuing its own money, while shops from Italy to the Netherlands have started to accept their former currencies, to the delight of their customers. Suddenly, the question is not who will be the next to join, but who will be the first to leave. In anticipation of a collapse, Germans are being advised to hang on to euro notes beginning with serial number “X” (which, apparently, indicates that they’re issued in Germany) and to ditch those beginning with “S” (issued in Italy).

Amazing how quickly something can go from being inevitable to being unthinkable. Eight years ago, most commentators assumed that the three recalcitrants – Britain, Sweden and Denmark – would have to join sooner or later. But guess which of the then 15 EU states have since enjoyed the highest growth rates? That’s right: Britain, Sweden and Denmark. As the Americans say, go figure.

[observer]

A couple of passing thoughts.

Since RoC didn't ask for Turkish, one of the official languages of the RoC, to be included in the list of official EU languages when they joined the EU, is it right to have a non-EU langauge on their euro coins?

Unless there has been a very recent reprint of the euro notes, the island of Cyprus is not shown on the map of Europe on the back of the notes.

So much for symbolism!

[pitsilos]

Olives, fruits and structures build by some of our rulers are nothing unique to Cyprus. Those statues are. And on those coins we were supposed to put something unique for Cyprus, not ... oranges!

Those statues represent the long history and civilization of our island and I would think that TCs would be glad that something even older than the long Greek History of our island was chosen.

I said it before and I will say it again: The Turks are trying not only to remove everything Greek and Christian from the occupied areas, but they are also trying to remove everything Cypriot as well. They do this by bringing in Cyprus 10s of thousands of mainland settlers, by brainwashing the TCs, and by terrorizing anybody that resists their effort to Turkify the north part of our country.

The thing is a cross and is direct provocation, if you cant see this then this says a lot more about you than me. This was a chance to keep things neutral and place something there that represents all Cypriots like the shape of the island maybe, do you object to that as well? Ho who cares its nothing to do with us, dont even know why Im bothering, put what the fuck you want it.

don't worry you will have more than enough time to get used to it.
and say thank you at the end.

and if they did put the shape of the island you would have wanted the lines to be drawn or something else, coz, your trashcan ain't showing

the problem with you(s), vip(s) nothing will satisfy you coz, you are selfish.

there is nothing better than exchibiting a civilisation prior to christ, but to you, vip(s) and only you, vip(s), its a cross. this shows how limited is your, vip(s), intellect.

ps. i said it before and i wil say it again, your, vip(s), loss of intellectual capacity and personality integration never ceases to amaze me

[Viewpoint]

Olives, fruits and structures build by some of our rulers are nothing unique to Cyprus. Those statues are. And on those coins we were supposed to put something unique for Cyprus, not ... oranges!

Those statues represent the long history and civilization of our island and I would think that TCs would be glad that something even older than the long Greek History of our island was chosen.

I said it before and I will say it again: The Turks are trying not only to remove everything Greek and Christian from the occupied areas, but they are also trying to remove everything Cypriot as well. They do this by bringing in Cyprus 10s of thousands of mainland settlers, by brainwashing the TCs, and by terrorizing anybody that resists their effort to Turkify the north part of our country.

The thing is a cross and is direct provocation, if you cant see this then this says a lot more about you than me. This was a chance to keep things neutral and place something there that represents all Cypriots like the shape of the island maybe, do you object to that as well? Ho who cares its nothing to do with us, dont even know why Im bothering, put what the fuck you want it.

don't worry you will have more than enough time to get used to it.
and say thank you at the end.

and if they did put the shape of the island you would have wanted the lines to be drawn or something else, coz, your trashcan ain't showing

the problem with you(s), vip(s) nothing will satisfy you coz, you are selfish.

there is nothing better than exchibiting a civilisation prior to christ, but to you, vip(s) and only you, vip(s), its a cross. this shows how limited is your, vip(s), intellect.

ps. i said it before and i wil say it again, your, vip(s), loss of intellectual capacity and personality integration never ceases to amaze me

Ho who cares its nothing to do with us, dont even know why Im bothering, put what the fuck you want on it

Is that intellectual enough for you, its about your level of understanding.

[Alexis]

A couple of passing thoughts.

Since RoC didn't ask for Turkish, one of the official languages of the RoC, to be included in the list of official EU languages when they joined the EU, is it right to have a non-EU langauge on their euro coins?

Unless there has been a very recent reprint of the euro notes, the island of Cyprus is not shown on the map of Europe on the back of the notes.

So much for symbolism!

Hi observer,

You say as if it is a fact. Is it? I am simply asking, I have no idea. From what I have heard (and this is purely anecdotal), any new EU member has to (unofficially) choose one primary language to be given EU status and one language only. Having said this a number of countries, notably Spain with Catalan, have recently being pushing to have secondary languages to be given official EU status. Even so the EU has only made these official working languages and not given them EU language status. The difference being that EU documents are not translated into these languages although correspondence with the EU can be made in them.
Another example is Irish, which is Eire's 1st language but has only just been given EU status. The reason being that even though it was the 1st language fewer people spoke it than spoke English. Basically it seems that any one member can only choose one language to be given EU status. What the RoC could do and has not yet is ask for Turkish to be made an official working language of the EU (as is Catalan/Basque etc...). Given the current circumstances it is probably not worth doing so yet.

So all I'm saying is, are you sure it was Cyprus that refrained from asking Turkish to be given EU status or could it have been more the other way around? Just some food for thought.