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48 unusual facts about Euro


2008 European Grand Prix

They later ruled that Ferrari would be fined 10,000 for the pit lane incident, but that Massa would keep his victory, as although the release was unsafe, no sporting advantage had been gained.

Andree Welge

He beat Tomas Seyler in the final to win the 100,000 first prize and his place in the 2013 World Championship.

Barak Yitzhaki

Media reports say that he was offered a 300,000 per annum contract that includes a 20% yearly wage rise for a period no less than three seasons.

Barcelona Supercomputing Center

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center has an initial operational budget of 5.5 million/year (about US$7 million/yr) to cover the period 2005–2011.

Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010

It was revealed on 19 February 2010 that Bosnia and Herzegovina's participation in the Contest may be put in danger due to substantial debts owed to the EBU nearing 2.9 million Swiss francs (close to 2 million), with the EBU requesting a payment of 250,000CHF (€170,000) to be paid by 30 April or BHRT will not be allowed to take part at the contest.

Bremerhaven Hauptbahnhof

Renovation is estimated to be finished by 2009 and first was budgeted at 8.2 million, of which the state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen was supposed to pay 3.8 million.

British Forces Germany

The BFG presence is estimated to contribute 1.5 billion Euros annually to the German economy.

Chamalières

Chamalières is the place where the Banque de France located its printing works in 1923, which printed former French franc banknotes, and now prints Euro banknotes.

Chen Zhizhao

According to Chen's contract with Nanchang Hengyuan on 26 February 2009, if a non-Chinese football club provided a bid of around 200,000 for him before 26 February 2011, then Nanchang would accept the transfer without any condition.

Cristian Boureanu

In May 2008, he was the subject of a criminal investigation for "abuse of office against the public interest" by the National Anticorruption Directorate for his role in signing a contract in 2000 between Loteria Română and a Greek firm that caused the former to incur losses of over 120 million.

Digital television in Russia

The total investments in the transition of terrestrial TV from analogue into digital format are expected to be 10 billion Euro during the period 2008-2015.

Diogo Luís Santo

Greek side Olympiacos F.C. also became interested and, in a widely-documented and somewhat controversial period of negotiation, Diogo finally signed for the club in August 2008, for 9 million and 70% of the player's rights.

Douglas da Silva

On 19 December 2010, He agreed with the Austrian club Red Bull Salzburg where he joined in the transfer window on 11 January 2011, Hapoel Tel Aviv received 2.6 million for the deal, while Da Silva will earn 1 million per year with a five-year contract.

EBPO

EURO (Cyrillic: ЕВРО, Greek: ΕΥΡΩ), the European common currency

Elvira Popescu

The house, built on a 1,224 m² lot, has 22 rooms, spread over 500 m² of living area; it was put on the market in 2005 for about 2 million Euros.

Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010

CEO of ERR Margus Allikmaa stated that "Personally I think cancelling Eurovision participation is the easiest option" in combat to the 28 million kroon (1.5 million) cut in spending.

Euro

Following the U.S. financial crisis in 2008, fears of a sovereign debt crisis developed in 2009 among fiscally conservative investors concerning some European states, with the situation becoming particularly tense in early 2010.

In May 2012, socialist François Hollande was elected as president of France and a month later the French socialist legislative position was strengthened, while German leader Angela Merkel "has appeared to be floundering and been badly let down by her advisers in recent months", one commentator said.

Euro-Excellence Inc. v. Kraft Canada Inc.

Kraft Canada sued Euro-Excellence Inc. for copyright infringement due to their importation of Côte d’Or and Toblerone chocolate bars from Europe into Canada.

Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network

On its fourth General Assembly in Marseille, a new action plan was adopted, which saw the network multiplying its activities.

Euro-Trash Girl

It was recorded live at the Metro Chicago, courtesy of WXRT (according to the liner notes on the back of the CD).

Gang de la Brise de Mer

Its capital is estimated to be between 120 and 150 million Euro.

Gary S. Lachman

He negotiated and managed the development of projects above 800 million globally.

Gavin Walsh

and contains around 1,100 posters, which Walsh has estimated to be worth as much as 1,000 each.

Hami Mandıralı

In 1998, he joined the German club Schalke 04 for DM7 million (3.5 million), but remained there for one year only.

Korda Studios

Altogether six studios were built from a total budget of 90 million Euros.

Lithuania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010

A total of 300,000 litas (90,000) was required by LRT to send a Lithuanian delegation to the contest in Oslo, Norway.

Luigi Sartor

The deal was almost a pure player exchange, with both players being tagged at about 9 million.

Mark Gasnier

Gasnier joined French rugby union club Stade Français from October 2008 on a two year deal worth approximately 300,000 a season.

Mazi sou

She will make an appearance on the TV to make a plea for finding her daughter offering 200.000 Euro

MEFTA

Euro-Mediterranean free trade area (EU-MEFTA), Euromed FTA, is based on the Barcelona Process and European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP)

MF 01

The winning consortium of four train manufacturers, namely Alstom, Bombardier, Technicatome and CSEE was chosen to manufacture the MF 2000 stock at a cost of 800 million.

Miroslav Mišković

Mišković was released from custody on 22 July 2013, after posting a 12 million bail.

MV Anne Scan

Anne Scan is a cargo ship registered in Antigua and Barbuda which was detained in Greenore, Republic of Ireland on 27 October 2009 when over 50,000,000 worth of cigarettes were discovered on board.

Nador railway stations

The construction of the 117 kilometer track to Taourirt cost 1.776 million dirham (approximately 180 million).

National Virtual Observatory

The NVO, a US effort, has affiliates throughout the international astronomical community including IVOA, AstroGrid (UK), Euro-VO, the Japanese VO, the Australian VO, VO India and ten other national programs.

Noël Le Graët

The group's turnover in 2010 amounted to approximately 163 million Euro.

Nuno Espírito Santo

F.C. Porto paid 3 million to bring Nuno back from Spain in July 2002, as part of Jorge Andrade's deal.

Odense International Film Festival


The winner will receive a diploma and a cheque with a value of 3.500 Euros

Portuguese Mozambicans

They have helped increase Portuguese-language fluency especially in remote rural places and improved the economy, as the metical has a large value converted from the Euro.

Rabiu Ibrahim

In the summer of 2007 he signed for Sporting Clube de Portugal for 450,000 in a joint ownership agreement with his previous club, Gateway FC.

Rodrigo Tello

He quickly made a good impression, being named the best midfielder in the country in 2000, and was transferred to Sporting Clube de Portugal for a fee of 7 million in January of the following year, at the same time as compatriot Mario Cáceres; at the time, it was a club record for the top division side.

Roei Dayan

However the proposed deal to bring him to St. Mirren has fallen through because of the 400,000 price tag that Maccabi Tel Aviv placed on Dayan.

Silke Kraushaar-Pielach

The sled sold for 1160 and the proceeds went to her sledding club in Oberhof.

Sylvia Bourdon

Bourdon later sued the European Union over its decision to call the single currency the Euro instead of the Ecu, the name inscribed in the Maastricht treaty.

Synchronised Armed Forces Europe

The opt-in model is the concept that is also applied to the Euro or Schengen Area.

The Exploding Meatball Sub

Barney indicates that a trip to Spain would cost a lot of "lira", which was the Italian currency (until they switched to the Euro a decade earlier).

Željko Đurđić

German-based newspaper Vesti wrote about him and offered ways to help him collect the necessary 5,000 .


A.F.C. Euro Kickers

Current National Assembly president Pedro Miguel González Pinzón played for Euro Kickers in the early years of the league.

Argentine hemorrhagic fever

A vaccination plan is yet to be outlined, but the budget for 2007 allows for 390,000 doses, at AR$8 each (about US$2.6 or 2 at the time).

Bart le Blanc

Since 2003 Bart Le Blanc is a member of the Board of the Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP in the Netherlands, one of the largest pension funds in the world with a total asset base of euro 240 billion.

Central Bank of Montenegro

Montenegro has not issued its own currency since, as it has unilaterally adopted the Euro in 2002.

Charles Edward Barns

The parents of Charles Barns, Caleb Paul Barns/Barnes and Elizabeth Ann (Eddy) Barns, emigrated from New York State to Wisconsin Territory with the early Euro-American settlers, and Caleb Barns began practicing law.

Claudia Presăcan

In 2002, Presăcan, along with former teammates Corina Ungureanu and Lavinia Miloșovici, sparked controversy by posing naked in photographs for a Japanese photobook, LCC Gold ISBN 4-87279-118-5, and performing gymnastics routines topless for the Japanese DVDs Gold Bird and Euro Angels.

Community Exchange System

While money typically takes the form of a national currency such as dollar bills or euro coins, there have been other types of currencies ranging from simple IOU notes––in which one person declares a debt to a second person in a written document––to more sophisticated programs such as airline miles in which points are accumulated in a side-system as a result of purchases.

Controversies surrounding the Eurozone crisis

In September 2011, EU commissioner Joaquín Almunia shared this view, saying that expelling weaker countries from the euro was not an option: "Those who think that this hypothesis is possible just do not understand our process of integration".

DX-Ball 2

Among other new features, the game also introduced two new Power-Ups: Mega Ball and Eight Ball; an easy-to-play Kid-Mode; and a euro-techno soundtrack by SideWinder, accompanying the addition of an integrated module player.

Eldar Mansurov

"Bayatılar" is the basis of the refrain of the 2009 Euro-dance "Stereo Love" by Romanian musicians Edward Maya and Vika Jigulina.

Ernesto Farías

In late July 2007, after a failed transfer to Deportivo Toluca F.C. for personal reasons, he signed a four-year contract for F.C. Porto, in a 4 million deal.

FC Universitatea Cluj

Other episodes of this rivalry are: in 2005, upset that Universitatea was relegated in Divizia C, "U" fans injured CFR's players at Sport Hotel of Cluj-Napoca; in 2007, a CFR supporter was killed by 15 Universitatea's ultras; in 2008, following a derby, CFR won and obtained its first league title and Universitatea relegated in Liga II, but this match was preceded by a corruption scandal, because Steaua Bucureşti's owner, Gigi Becali offered to "U" staff 1 milion euro for defeating CFR.

Florent Sinama Pongolle

On 4 May 2007, the Andalusia outfit confirmed he signed a permanent deal until 2011, for a fee of 4 million (£2.7 million).

Fondo de Reestructuración Ordenada Bancaria

On June 9, 2012, the Spanish economy minister Luis de Guindos announced that Spain would request a loan of up to 100 billion euro for FROB, which would be used to recapitalise Spanish banks.

Fornaci di Barga

In the first years of the present century, with the advent of the euro, the factory, today called KME Group, started to produce coins.

Frédéric Artru

In March 2004, Chris Cantell and Frédéric Artru incorporate privately funded Sigex Ventures Euro Fund, SAS, a French investment vehicle for telecommunications technology ventures.

German Jazz Award

Named after Albert Mangelsdorff, the European jazz scene's best-known trombonist, it is endowed with 15.000 Euro by the GEMA foundation.

Great Wall Peri

The Great Wall Peri complies with the Euro-III emissions standard.

International status and usage of the euro

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan gave his opinion in September 2007 that the euro could indeed replace the US dollar as the world's primary reserve currency.

Kim Christer Lauren

On 18 April 2012, the Kymenlaakso district court sentenced Lauren, 22 years old at the time, to three years and three months in prison, as well as having to pay a total sum of 17 thousand Euro to the girl and her family as compensation for the suffering he caused.

Lithuania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012

The Lithuanian representative in Baku will be awarded 15,000 litai (4,308).

Luis Arconada

During the ceremony following Spain's victory in Euro 2008, third-choice for the winners Andrés Palop wore Arconada's original Euro 84 final shirt, as he received the gold medal from Platini, now president of UEFA.

Luis Ureta Sáenz Peña

During the Argentine economic crisis in 2002, he convinced his parent company to invest 50 million Euros in their El Palomar plant to manufacture the Peugeot 307.

NuComm International

On August 27, 2007, Transcom WorldWide S.A., the European Customer Relationship Management and debt collections specialist, announced that it had acquired 100% of NuComm International, and a maximum cash consideration of $90 million CAD (63 million) will be paid in three installments.

Nycomed

The Nycomed company annually awards a prize totaling 20,000 Euro to four excellent junior scientists at the University of Konstanz.

Pledge drive

In order to appeal to such a largely Euro-American, middle-aged and affluent demographic (the so-called "Baby Boomers" and "Generation X"), PBS has resorted to specials such as self-help programs with speakers such as Suze Orman, nostalgic popular music concerts, and special versions of PBS' traditionally popular "how-to" programs.

Pouliadis Associates Corporation

Its main creditors are Alpha Bank, Cyprus Popular Bank, Eurobank EFG, and National Bank of Greece, and the company has now reached an agreement for a new 2 million euro loan from the banks to allow it to maintain its activities during its recent economic problems.

Raffaele Baldassarre

On 24 June 2013, the Dutch news blog GeenStijl posted a video in which Baldassarre was seen checking in at the European Parliament to claim a 304 euro daily expenses fee, leaving immediately afterwards.

Randy Caparoso

In 1988 Caparoso met Chef Roy Yamaguchi, who had previously forged a high profile career in Los Angeles, fusing Asian ingredients and seasonings of his childhood up with the classical, sauce oriented, French cuisine with which he was trained (at that time Yamaguchi described this approach to cooking as Euro-Asian, which he later changed to Hawaiian Fusion).

Ribeira da Cruz

Its a very poor village where the people live with less than one euro (nearly 100 escudos or one dollar) per day.

Sergey Morozov

Sergei Borisovich Morozov (born 1989), Russian footballer who played at the 2006 Euro U-17 tournament

Short squeeze

Short squeezes are more likely to occur in stocks with small market capitalization and small floats, although can involve large stocks and billions of dollars, as happened in October 2008 when a short squeeze temporarily drove the shares of Volkswagen on the Xetra DAX from 210.85 to over €1000 in less than two days, briefly making it the most valuable company in the world.

Spanish euro coins

In Avilés, Asturias, a Spanish one-euro coin was discovered with the image of Homer Simpson, a cartoon character from the show The Simpsons, in place of King Juan Carlos I.

Transcom WorldWide

NuComm had revenues of $122 million CAD (85 million) for the twelve months ended 31 July 2007.

U.D. Leiria

The architect who designed the stadium was Tomás Taveira, who also designed stadiums for Euro 2004 which include Beira Mar's Estádio Municipal de Aveiro and Sporting's Estádio José Alvalade.

United Kingdom and the euro

However, as national variation is a requisite of euro coins, it remains an option for the Royal Mint to incorporate the symbols of the Home Nations into its designs for the British national sides of euro coinage.

Vladimir Gabulov

He made his competitive debut in a Euro 2008 Qualifier against Macedonia and was sent off in the 69th minute for a foul on Goran Maznov.

Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?

Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (달마가 동쪽으로 간 까닭은? - Dalmaga dongjjok-euro gan ggadakeun?) (1989) is an award-winning South Korean film written, produced and directed by Bae Yong-kyun, a professor at Dongguk University in Seoul.

Willem Holleeder

In 1983, Holleeder was sentenced to eleven years imprisonment for his involvement in the kidnapping of Heineken president Freddy Heineken, for which 16 million euro ransom was collected.