{"id":2176,"date":"2014-11-28T16:25:28","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T21:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2176"},"modified":"2014-11-28T16:25:28","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T21:25:28","slug":"netherlands-germany-have-euro-disaster-plan-possible-return-to-guilder-and-mark-www-goldcore-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2176","title":{"rendered":"Netherlands, Germany Have Euro Disaster Plan &#8211; Possible Return to Guilder and Mark | www.goldcore.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldcore.com\/goldcore_blog\/Netherlands_Germany_Have_Euro_Disaster_Plan_Possible_Return_to_Guilder_and_Mark\">Netherlands, Germany Have Euro Disaster Plan &#8211; Possible Return to Guilder and Mark | www.goldcore.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.6em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">The Dutch finance ministry prepared for a scenario in which the Netherlands could return to its former currency &#8211; the guilder. They hosted meetings with a team of legal, economic and foreign affairs experts to discuss the possibility of returning to the Dutch guilder in early 2012.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.6em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">The Dutch finance minister during the period has confirmed that Germany also discussed such scenarios.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.6em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">At the time the Euro was in crisis, Greece was on the verge of leaving or being pushed out of the Euro and the debt crisis was hitting Spain and Italy hard. The Greek prime minister Georgios Papandreou and his Italian counterpart Silvio Berlusconi had resigned and there were concerns that the eurozone debt crisis was spinning out of control &#8211; leading to contagion and the risk of a systemic collapse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.6em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">A TV documentary broke the story last Tuesday. The rumours were confirmed on Thursday by the current Dutch minister of finance, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, and the current President of the Eurogroup of finance ministers in a television interview which was covered by\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/euobserver.com\/news\/126605\">EU Observer<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-11-18\/dutch-had-back-up-plan-to-reintroduce-guilder-dijsselbloem-says.html\">Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.6em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netherlands, Germany Have Euro Disaster Plan &#8211; Possible Return to Guilder and Mark | www.goldcore.com. The Dutch finance ministry prepared for a scenario in which the Netherlands could return to its former currency &#8211; the guilder. They hosted meetings with a team of legal, economic and foreign affairs experts to discuss the possibility of returning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[951,280,284,1480,1479],"class_list":["post-2176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-currency","tag-euro","tag-european-union","tag-germancy","tag-netherlands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2177,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions\/2177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}