{"id":2867,"date":"2026-08-03T03:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=2867"},"modified":"2026-08-03T03:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:33:11","slug":"callas-beethoven-bee-eaters-or-storks-competition-seeks-to-redesign-euro-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=2867","title":{"rendered":"Callas, Beethoven, bee-eaters or storks: competition seeks to redesign euro notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EU is using a currency revamp as an opportunity to be less neutral and try some finely balanced identity-building<\/p>\n<p>Is Europe best represented by the bold intellect of Marie Curie, the sprawling imagination of Miguel de Cervantes and the intense musical genius of Ludwig van Beethoven? Or by a migrating stork and a bee-eater, swooping across borderless plains and enjoying freedom of movement across European countries?<\/p>\n<p>The quest to settle this issue has engaged a surprising number of people across the continent, after more than 6 million people voted in a survey within just a week of its launch to determine whether the newly redesigned euro bank notes should depict either cultural figures or birds and waterways.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/aug\/02\/european-central-bank-notes-new-design\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href='https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/aug\/02\/european-central-bank-notes-new-design' target='_blank'>Read the original article on www.theguardian.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU is using a currency revamp as an opportunity to be less neutral and try some finely balanced identity-building Is Europe best represented by the bold intellect of Marie Curie, the sprawling imagination of Miguel de Cervantes and the intense musical genius of Ludwig van Beethoven? Or by a migrating stork and a bee-eater, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,36],"tags":[12,29,33],"class_list":["post-2867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-share-suggestions","tag-impact-intc","tag-signal-avoid","tag-stage-stage-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}