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Published online 9 March 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010315-1

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The euro: a false economy?

Physicists are pitching in to the debate about the Deutschmark's influence on the euro.

Critics of the euro, the transnational European single currency, say it is a glorified Deutschmark, confined by the vicissitudes of the strong German economy. Lesser European economies, according to this view, put themselves at the mercy of the Deutschmark by joining the euro scheme.

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