this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2026
485 points (98.8% liked)

Political Memes

2114 readers
340 users here now

Non political memes: !memes@sopuli.xyz

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What does France and Germany use? Can England back their pounds on the franc?

Are you asking if the EU can use the euro as a reserve currency?

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think I am, in the same way America uses its own currency. It's working for them; until this years potential collapse, I mean.

America doesn't use their own currency as a foreign currency reserve. They really don't have much of a need for a foreign currency reserve as they have historically had a relatively stable currency and a lot of partners who are more than willing to trade in USD.

The US has around 30-40 billion in reserve currency while the EU has somewhere between 300-400 billion.