As the single currency celebrates ten years, cartoonists from Italy, Spain, Slovenia and France paint their visions of a euro which seems distant from its users
A decade of the euro - in cartoons
(Illustration: María Luque Crespo)
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Translation: Nabeelah Shabbir
06/01/09
Tags : Gianluca Costantini, humour, anniversary, dessins de presse, economical crisis, Euro, life cost, comics, best of cafebabel.com.
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Sweet dreams | (Illustration: Gianluca Costantini, Ravenna)
Twenty years on | (Illustration: Alberto Caiero, San Salvador, Slovenia)
Fifty | (Illustration: María Luque Crespo, Barcelona)
‘Since we’ve had the euro all European pockets have been the same’ ‘What - empty?’ | (Illustration: Arnald, Rome)
‘I’ll give you ten euros seeing as it’s ten years of the euro’ ‘You sure it’s not the 100-year anniversary?’ | (Illustration: Jaurent Jeanneau, Paris)
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