Oh I did say Bosnia Sorry about that It gets confusing sometimes Did you know that Republic of Serbia and Serbian Republic are two different places Fairly recently Blair made it virtually impossible for the UK to not adopt the euro by 2010 despite public opinion To circumvent public opinion Blair s government conducted a poll of corporations which turned up a 90 favorable return toward adoption The suggestion has been made and is being debated as part of a potential agreement to allow Scotland Wales N Ireland and England to issue seperate euro coins in order to preserve the cultural connection to their currency Personally I don t think the ECB will go for this but stranger things have happened There is already a confusion factor eurozone wide regarding euro coin designs introducing 9 more designs between now and 2010 will only serve to compound the problem There would be 200 different legal tender coins in circulation This doesn t take into account the new common design or the 2 euro commemoratives This issue has been a steadily more intense and growing headache for the ECB