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by troupo 859 days ago
So.

Argentina: 1 country. 1 currency. 1 law applicable to the entire country.

SEPA: EU + Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom: 31 countries. 12 currencies (7 currencies in the EU alone [1]). 31 different laws (while EU countries must adhere to the overall EU laws, they are free to implement their own laws as they see fit within the general framework).

wslh: yes, yes, they are entirely comparable, after all Argentina also has regions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currencies_of_the_European_Uni... Turkish Lyra is used in Northern Cyprus which, while de jure part of Cyprus, is not in the EU.

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Again, do you know Argentina? If Argentina could implement this in one year in 2001 I assume that EU could implement it faster almost a decade after.
Again, two people gave you clear reasons why. And yet you keep saying that apple and orange is the same fruit