Beautiful currency never loses value

I’ve always maintained that the designs on the euro currency were utterly dreary.

So I am gratified that Christine Lagarde, head honcho of the European Central Bank, has announced that euro notes are about to undergo a re-design.

The main problem with the present notes is that they wholly lack a vital ingredient that makes us relate to a currency. They lack a human touch.

I said that to the powers-that-be, many times over, when the euro was first