Everyone in Europe hates the euro: the Germans, the Spanish, certainly the Greeks. For one thing, it doesn’t even sound like a type of money. It sounds like a style of music: “Did you go to that Euro rave last night?”
Disco
Techno
Emo
Euro
A slightly better name for the currency would have been the “Europa.”
Europe has always had a problem with hubris. Once she dominated the world with sword and steel. Now she attempts to do so with financial instruments — but less victoriously.
Europeans had a right to conquest because they had Culture, which the world did not. But what Culture have they produced lately? ABBA? Norwegian death metal? Martin Amis (who just moved to Brooklyn)?