Do you have problrems with Euro in your country?

Well, I live in America, and we of course, don't use the Euro. But I was concerned when Europe went to a one money type. I don't live there, so I don't know what is best for any European nation, but it seemed like it would just bring the value of the money as a whole down when it all merged together. In addition, there has to be an economic impact. Of course, I'm American. And I'm probably wrong. : )

I am visiting my relatives in Poland, they worry about Euro transfer...and lower standard of living...

Hi, I did not know there was this problem in Italy, sounds awful. In UK we did not adopt the Euro and I can see good and bad points on both sides of the argument. Here we have a lot of people that shout loudly that giving up the pound means giving up being British, there is a lot of anti-European feeling here but I do not think that adopting a Euro will really make us any less British. The bad thing about adopting the Euro is the period of upheaval that it will inevitably cause and which you are now experiencing. The good thing is the long term benefit it could bring. Europe has an economy 5 times larger than the US and suffers at the moment because the US operates very protectionist and unfair trade policies that it is able to enforce because it is so much more powerful economically than any single European country like the playground bully but where Europe united economically then the boot would be on the other foot, so to speak. An economically united Europe would undoubtedly force US to remove its restrictive trade practices and this would be provide a massive economic boost to Europe. Without it, I think Europe will suffer from the rise of the Chinese economy all the best urban

I have only been in Italy since they converted to the Euro so I wasn't around for the Lira but it is very expensive everything in italy from what i have seen. the only thing that is cheap is il vino dal supermercato :) but i did not know that is how they converted from liras to euros.. that is not right and for italy's economy it must be hard to pay double for some things!!

It has more or less worked itself out now as we switched over at the vrey beginning. We did have a lot of trouble with shop owners using the change over to raise their prices. They said they were 'rounding off' the prices so they would neaten things up, like 1,99 or 1.95 rather than 1.36. There was a lot of gouging of the sonsumer and the newspapers had a heyday and outed the places that were notorious for doing it to alert consumers not to shop there.

I'm Italian too, I know that we have had some problems here in Italy, but I think that the Euro has been the greatest think Italy has done in all its history, so VIVA L'EURO E L'UNIONE EUROPEA!!!

All the people was so happy because they believed when Euro will come the economy of the country and all of us will be better....What a huge lie.It wasn't our mistake but the government months before start tell to us how nice the things will be good and from a pour Europe country will be same with all Europeans countries bla bla bla.....now the life is everyday and more expensive,the salaries so low.when the Euro came was 1euro=375 Greek money,suddenly in on year whatever you buy before 100 Greek money be 1euro,so when we pay before 100 now we pay 375. The sad is I don't wait anything change,our government didn't and don't thing to help us .....

I'm Italian too and I live in Italia, I agree with you, all that you said is absolutely correct. Unfortunately nowadays life is more and more expensive here in Italy and people are more and more desperate. The last week I watched at TV a very sad talkshow by Michele Santoro: there were desperate people who were forced to sell their flat because they couldn't pay their loan anymore. The euro changed our life, the only people who earned are the tradesmen.

I'm an American, and I haven't traveled abroad in many years. The European Union was still a little green around the edges, the last time I was in Europe (1996) and talk of converting to one money had only more or less begun. I remember even then, though, being wary of it, because of the potential economic impact it would have on some of the countries. It was painfully obvious, traveling from country to country and exchanging currencies that the impact in some countries (Italy specifically stands out in my mind) wouldn't necessarily be positive. Besides, half the fun of traveling the continent was collecting the change I couldn't exchange back into American currency on my return home. Now there's only one set of coins... that's not nearly as fun. ;)

No, in my country we don't have this problem. I'm from Curacao, The Netherlands Antilles. Our currencies is the (ANG.)Florin. And our Florin is coupled to the dollar and not to the euro. What your country is passing throu nowadays is the pure example of integration. once your Government accept to integrate they accepted also the rules governing the system, perhaps without taking in consideration the possible causes the effect of integration brought with it. I would like to wish you all the best, and hope that in the very near future YOU as the folk will turn around this situation. Remember that the voice of the folks is the voice of GOD.