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Perhaps befitting a battle that ended French hegemony in Europe, Paris, it seems, has been outflanked once again.

After it objected to a decision in March by Belgium to introduce a new 2 euro coin to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo, the Belgians retreated, scrapping 180,000 coins they had already minted.

But victory for France is proving elusive.

This week, Belgium decided to circumvent French resistance by invoking a little-known European Union rule that allows countries to issue euro coins of their choice, provided they are in an irregular denomination.

That led to the unveiling of a €2.50 coin — a first in Belgium — and 70,000 of them have now been minted. The coins, which can only be spent inside Belgium, display a monument of a lion atop a cone-shaped hill on the site of France’s humiliation, as well as lines indicating where troops were positioned when forces led by Britain and Prussia defeated Napoleon in the countryside near Brussels.
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FCBarcelonaChr skrev:En kunde har lige købt shots til mig i Kvickly! :i

Michman skrev:

FCBarcelonaChr skrev:En kunde har lige købt shots til mig i Kvickly! :i

Folk mand, folk er flinke på fyn.. Måske skulle man flytte..

Brombi skrev:Ved ikke lige hvor jeg skal poste den her, så here goes.. Nogen vil nok mene det er lidt tabu, men det er jo til en god sags tjeneste. Jeg valgte at donere noget tøj til den her begivenhed og gav blandt andet den her. Jeg synes den er flot, men vigtigst af alt kan det være, at en fattig syrisk cule kommer til at få en ægte barca trøje og på den måde kan repræsentere barca :)