On 4 Jan 2002, at 7:51, Han Maenen wrote: > I do not know how far the following is true, but it seems that the euro > changeover in Italy is very difficult: > Italians not so keen to say 'arrivederci lira' There are no lies in the article .... except the 3% finat that turned to be an error since it was 10% ... ... And the fact that the train ticket problem has been occurred also in Germany (Except that DB notified some days in advance of the possible problem) About the responsabilities: I think that the ones to blame are those that decided the changeover on the last day of a month, after a long weekend. This joined the changeover business with the last-day-of-the-month ritual payments. Add the fact that in italy banks and post offices have been closed from 29 to 1 inclusive . Had been done as in germany and other countries where banks were open on 1/1 just for change the change job would have not have interfered with normal workday jobs. Also many banks did the changeover on the morning of 2/2 and so remained closed until 0930 (usually open at 0815) . So many businesses was not able to get money for giving change before opening at 0830 to 0930 and so perpetuated old money circulation, sometimes reinjecting old money to people that was already euro-converted.
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