EUROS do SUL , quem os quer?

Notes printed in Berlin have more currency for bank customers who fear a = 'value crisis' Ordinary Germans have begun to reject = euro bank notes with serial numbers from Italy, Spain, Greece and Portugal, raising concerns that public support = for monetary union may be waning in the eurozone's anchor country. = Germany's Handelsblatt newspaper says bankers have detected a curious pattern = where customers are withdrawing cash directly from branches, screening the = notes to determine the origin of issue. They ask for paper from the southern = states to be exchanged for German notes. Each country prints its own notes = according to its economic weight, under strict guidelines from the European = Central Bank in Frankfurt. The German notes have an 'X'' at the start of the serial = numbers, showing that they come from the Bundesdruckerei in Berlin. = Italian notes have an 'S' from the Instituto Poligrafico in Rome, and Spanish notes = have a 'V' from the Fabrica Nacional de Moneda in Madrid. The notes are entirely interchangeable and circulate freely through the eurozone and, indeed, = beyond. People clearly suspect that southern notes may = lose value in a crisis, or if the eurozone breaks apart. This is what = happened in the US in the Jackson era of the 1840s when dollar notes from different = regions traded at different values. 'The scurrilous idea behind this is = that if the eurozone should succumb to growing divergences, then it is best to = cling to most stable countries,' said the Handelsblatt. 'There are no = grounds for panic. The Italian state is not Bear Stearns,' it said. Germans = appear to be responding to a mix of concerns. Many own property in Spain or = Portugal and have become aware of the Iberian housing slump.

Fonte: ASNC