3. INTRODUCTION
In this project, we would like to analyse the change from the Peseta to
the Euro, in the Spanish economical system between 20th and 21st
centuries.
Firstly, we are going to introduce our project, and then we will explain a
little bit of the background of this historical change.
Secondly, we are going to present you our narrators, and the interviews
we made with them. Besides, we will show you some of our results.
Finally, we will end summing up our conclusions.
4. BACKGROUND
In the 1st of January of 1999 Spain and another 11 countries
embraced a new common coin, the Euro.
This transition had a big impact on people’s lives, as it meant for
them to change the habit of using the Peseta, which had been around
for 134 years.
The first step the Spanish Government took in order to change from
Pesetas to Euros was to stablish a proportion, 1 euro was exactly
166,386 Pesetas.
5. OBJECTIVES
1. Study the economical change from Peseta to Euros.
2. Examine the advantages or disadvantages of this change.
3. Analyse how this change affected to Spanish citizens lifestyle.
4. Investigate whether the value of the euro corresponds to the peseta’s one.
6. NARRATORS
Esther, she is 57 years old.
She was born in Valladolid when the
Peseta was the official coin in Spain.
For her, the change from Peseta to
Euro was not very outstanding,
Esther adapted quite easily to Euros.
7. Maria del Carmen, who is 75 years old.
She was born in Burgos, and since then, she has
been living there.
Nowadays, she is already retired but the years
before she worked as a nurse in a hospital called San
Juan de Dios, in Burgos.
When the change from the Peseta to the Euro
occurs, she was working and this change affected
greatly to her daily life.
NARRATORS
8. RESULTS
According to our narrators, this change not only had some advantages
like for example having a common coin in the whole Europe; but also,
it had some disadvantages like the rising of Spanish way of life.
Adapting was difficult for many people because they had to do a lot of
mental calculations for instance when they went shopping, specially
elder people.
9. CONCLUSIONS
We haven’t found differences between our narrators, and both
have been very useful for our project because they have provided
us some interesting information and personal experiences about
this topic.
Both they keep good memories of that period, so even they saved
some copies of notes and coins in pesetas.
Despite all they agree with the use of the euro in Spain.
10. THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION
“De la peseta al euro”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhFnbpG4SzY
BLOG ADRESS:
https://pesetavseurospain.wordpress.com/
Raquel Molinero Gómez
Irene Herranz Martínez
Inés Romero Martín
