10658 Gambling on leaving the Euro?

I thought the clever money was more likely to be on whether the UK has another go at entering the Eurozone, or not... ;)

PS. You can't access the website if you are in Italy, by the way... You get to see the aams warning screen...

Funny one Nardini! I had a look too - here is what you get:

"In applicazione del decreto dell'Amministrazione autonoma dei monopoli di Stato (AAMS) del 2 gennaio 2007, disciplinante la rimozione dei casi di offerta in assenza di autorizzazione, attraverso rete telematica, di giochi, lotterie, scommesse o concorsi pronostici con vincite in denaro, con il quale è stata data attuazione all'art. 1, comma 50, della Legge 27 dicembre 2006, n° 296, il sito richiesto non è raggiungibile poiché sprovvisto delle autorizzazioni necessarie per operare la raccolta di giochi in Italia."

And for those poor souls who need the Italian government to save them from themselves - here it is.

[quote]First country to pull out of the Euro?
Singles Only. Applies to the first country to pull out of the Euro by 31st December 2009. If none of the below pull out then bets will be void.

Italy 7 - 4

Ireland 3 - 1

Spain 7 - 2

Austria 8 - 1

Greece 8 - 1

France 12 - 1 [/quote]

Should we start a forum book? :bigergrin:

But you know that most of the English will want to stick with the [B]Giro [/B]............:bigergrin:

Weird stuff. I was going to quote juliancoll's message, but I couldn't 'quote the quote'. Surely that can't be something the Italian lotto could detect? Do they speaka da Inglish?

Anyway, I was fascinated by the 'Singles Only' warning. Is this a dating site :bigergrin:

some of the english!!!!

[QUOTE=alan h;99033]I see that Paddy Power has Italy as 7/4 favorites to leave the Euro within 1 year [Ireland is second on 3/1]

[url=http://www.paddypower.com/bet?action=go_type&category=SPECIALS&ev_class_id=45&ev_type_id=10374&promo=nov_OutoftheEurozone&crea=lnk&novelty=1]Out Of The Eurozone Betting[/url]

Who's your money on?
that more countries will join the euro zone,and maybe sooner than you think the UK too...

I should think that the chances of UK joining the Euro are as weak now as they have ever been.

The general consensus over here seems to be that if anyone is going to b*gger up our currency, it might as well be us rather than the French.

Anyway - we have most of the benefits already - only one currency to use when driving down from UK [excepting of course Switzerland - who also do not seem to be in any rush to join].

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I take it you are a Eurosceptic then, Alan?

;)

[quote=Nardini;99117]I take it you are a Eurosceptic then, Alan?

;)[/quote]

I take it you aren't.

Me - probably, but possibly not - since a united(?) Europe could stop the USA from stomping around in our back yard

[quote=alan h;99119]I take it you aren't.

Me - probably, but possibly not - since a united(?) Europe could stop the USA from stomping around in our back yard[/quote]Of course not, Alan. i live in Europe, after all. Can you imagine the furore if the UK pulled out of the EU and we, living in Italy as we do, suddenly had the same rights as an... Ethiopian??

But, I take your point about stopping the US Empire spreading further, even if they do seem to be managing pretty well at stopping themselves all on their own at the moment, eh? ;)