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Eusko: a local, Basque, ecological and solidarity currency!
Open an eusko account: http://www.euskalmoneta.org/ouverture-de-compte.php
- Why set up a local currency?
In order to have a tool that favours the advent of an economy that is more respectful of human beings and their natural environment and thus:-
put the economy at the service of mankind, culture and the planet,
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promote local exchanges and relocate part of the economy-
develop social ties and solidarity-
develop the use and place of Euskara-
support local projects of common interest-
reduce the ecological impact
-How does it work?
A batch of forgery-proof tickets of 1, 2, 5, 10 and 20 units is issued, exchangeable for their equivalent in euros. Individuals who make this exchange can no longer make the reverse exchange. Businesses, shops, associations, municipalities, producers, craftsmen and various self-employed persons who adhere to the Local Currency Charter may receive these banknotes as a means of payment. They can, however, exchange them for euros, but in this case they lose 2% of their value. They are therefore encouraged to put them back into circulation.
An association manages all the decisions relating to this currency, as well as the authorisation of the structures and persons (from the restaurant to the physiotherapist, the printing shop, the festival committee, the farmer or the municipal swimming pool, etc.) who can receive this currency as a means of payment.
At the same time, the local currency makes it possible to redirect part of consumption and production. In order to be entitled to receive this local currency, companies must indeed obey a set of specifications, laying down a certain number of rules of ineligibility: companies that are highly polluting or known for their deplorable social practices, large international chains, industrial agriculture, producers or traders who do not obtain their supplies at all from other local producers
The rules that will make up the specifications (and which may change over time) will gradually have an influence on the type of local economy, an influence that is all the more important as the use of local currency expands. Indeed, it will be in the interest of companies to adapt so as not to lose this growing clientele, this local purchasing power to the benefit of other companies which are themselves in line with the relocating, linguistic, ecological and social standards promoted by the specifications.
- Interest for the company The
company, the trade, the independent worker, the small producer who enters the local currency network can thus gain new customers, who will only be able to spend their local currency with them. Moreover, this has a label effect, guaranteeing a certain state of mind and a certain quality of the practices of the member companies of the network. By networking suppliers, it also increases the turnover of certain companies that are called upon to supply or work for other companies in the network. The overall effect is a relocation of production and a revival of local economic activity.
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Interest for the consumer The local currency
favours local employment and local trade and thus the quality of life.
The local currency makes it possible to ask the question of the origin and the way in which the products and services consumed in daily life are manufactured and distributed. It is a guarantee that purchases are made from companies that show a minimum interest in the area where they are located, as well as in linguistic and cultural diversity, and ecological and social values. It enables them to demonstrate their attachment to their region and to a certain model of society and economy on a daily basis, through a very concrete and visible gesture, through an instrument that is very easy to wear and use. The daily consumer becomes an actor
- Interest in the Basque Country The
currency is an institution. It makes a very specific territory exist. The choice of the territory where the currency in question will be valid is the foundation of a community project, a collective identity, in short a country - open and inclusive, on a human scale, actor of its present and its future, in solidarity with the rest of the world and the generations to come - in the sense that we understand it here.
The use by each citizen of this local currency is an act of attachment to this territory, of interest in its evolution and its future.
By including points concerning the place of Euskara in signage, communication or the internal life of the company in the Specifications, the place of Euskara in public life is strengthened and promoted by this local currency. This place may be growing and following the evolution of a more voluntarist specification as the local currency becomes more and more important for the company.
The relocation of part of the purchasing power strengthens the local economic fabric. A local currency is an additional instrument for strengthening social ties and local solidarity, as well as a mass educational exercise in citizenship and the reappropriation of the economy and politics. A local currency of this type will be a perfect complement to the range of tools that the Basque Country already has in place to build itself in a more humane, fairer, more supportive, more self-managed and more sustainable way
