• rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Every country I know about has a fiat currency, but the monetary sovereignty bit is also important. Governments within the EU don’t have monetary sovereignty, and therefore are limited by taxation. The EU as a whole could do the same thing, because they are the body that controls the Euro.

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      8 months ago

      If you talk about currencies that are backed in gold, then none. The last country to abolish the Gold standard was Switzerland at some point in the 1990s.