I try to pay everything in cash as much as I can, so it's nice to see the banknotes get some love from the ECB (even though the absence of €1 and €2 banknotes still hurts…).

I think it's a bit strange to feature people on these, plus it would be difficult to agree on who to feature between the 21 € states. The birds look cool! But it would have been nice to modernize the current architecture-based design rather than feature random EU office buildings.

Me too, #NormalizeCash

Cash is freedom.

> plus it would be difficult to agree on who to feature between the 21 € states.

What do you mean? Clearly they did agree, which is why we have those design proposals. Those aren’t random people chosen by the designers, they were in the brief.

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2025/html/ecb.pr2501...