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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1518131, member: 39&quot;]The EU has never been one single country, so you have &quot;horses&quot; that are a little lax, &quot;horses&quot; that would rather run in a totally different direction but won&#039;t do that as long as they get their budget rebate, &quot;horses&quot; that would love to tell the others what direction to take, and so on.* But guess what, 20 years later, all member states that also are in the euro area (and a few other member states) issued a 50 Years ToR piece ...</p><p><br /></p><p>* The designer Reinhart Heinsdorff wanted to explicitly emphasize this idea of &quot;moving forward even though not everybody pulls in exactly the same direction&quot;. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>(Edit: The edge inscription refers to the &quot;leading statesmen&quot; of the six original member states: Adenauer, Bech, De Gasperi, Luns, Schuman and Spaak.)</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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