Euromyths revisited/Euromythen
am 24.08.2007 von Transblawg
Certain Ideas of Europe, the Economist's Europe blog, reports that a new article on Euromyths has appeared on the European Commission's website. It lists the most amusing, including:
Nutty EU officials want to rename Bombay mix Mumbai mix—to make the snack politically correct. They say the Indian city of Bombay has been called Mumbai since 1995 so the old name could offend because it dates back to colonial rule.
The euro made me impotent…now a German man claims the switch to the single currency has had a similar dire impact on his personal life—robbing him of his manhood.
Apparently there was a Euromyth a few years ago that motorway bridges have to bear a bust of Jacques Delors, and another that there were to be warning signs on mountains telling climbers that they were high up.
Sadly, this reflects what the British …
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