Bug#131951: www.debian.org: Wrong facts on <http://www.debian.org /News/2001/20011231>
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 10:48:56AM +0100, ariser@pilotomie.de wrote:
> Package: www.debian.org
> Version: 20020202
> Severity: wishlist
>
> The news page at www.debian.org reports the following regarding the EURO:
> ----8<--------
> On January 1, 2002, twelve of the countries in the European Economic
> and Monetary Union (EMU) will give up their own currencies and adopt
> the new Euro (EUR) currency: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany,
> Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain.
> The Vatican City is also participating in the changeover. Countries that
> have used the currency of one of the above countries will adopt the Euro
> as well. This makes it a total of about forty countries which will share
> the common currency.
> ---->8---------
>
> This is not correct. The mentioned countries gave up their currencies
> on January 1, 1999. From this date the EURO was already used for
> international payment transaction.
> On January 1, 2002, just only the banknotes and coins were released for
> public use.
I really don't think anyone reading news archive will care about these minor
wording glitches...
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