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- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 23:45:00 N
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- From: Guenther Augustin <AUGUSTIN@DHDMPI50.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Common Monetary System?
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- >on the TV in the lobby of a hotel in Beroun. None else present, seemed at all
- >interested, I am afraid. Later I was surprised to find the vast majority of
- >my countrymen whom I talked to in Central Bohemia and Prague the competely
- >independant Slovak State as an issue had already been finally worn out. The
- >Czechs are already discussing the pragmatic problems of future, e.g. monetary
- >reform and other measures concerning the national interest of the Czech State
- >which will continue its one thousand years old tradition.
- This pragmatic attitude on the one hand, and the melancholy of unrecoverable
- loss reminds me of the german reunification process. It was just about the
- same, only in the other direction (unification instead of secession).
- And again the world looks upon it with mixed feelings, while those directly
- involved are (still) enthusiastic about their perspectives. The future might
- not be as nice as everybody thinks, but there are still things that have to be
- done, no matter how hard or inconvenient they are : the separation seems to be
- one of them, and that must be admitted even by those who don't like it for one
- or another reason.
-
- >It would be somewhat difficult anyway, for the Czechs are not feeling
- >and in fact are really not crashed at all. And they will not be unless
- >Mr Klaus makes a bad mistake and accepts a common monetary system. This
- >is the barricade the Czechs have to defend now by any means! If the Slovaks
- >want to become _really_ independent and sovreign, they cannot share the Czech
- >crown! No way!
- >
- >Regards,
- >
- >M. Havranek. Stuttgart, FRG
- Applause. You are so right. Even if I might repeat myself: it's (almost)
- always about the money. I remember the controversial debate on the
- currency union between the FRG and the GDR. Even the toughest critics must now
- admit that is was right (but that does not excuse many other mistakes).
- So keep your currencies apart and take good care of the rest ;-)
-
- Regards
-
- auge
-