• the City of Amsterdam spent €160,000 on an unsuccessful soil sanitation program to save the Anne Frank Tree, one of the oldest chestnut trees in the area?
• between 2001 and 2007 the German Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future" paid €4.4 billion to more than 1,660,000 victims of forced labor in Germany during World War II?
• Pollicipes pollicipes (pictured), a goose barnacle found on rocky shores in the north-east Atlantic Ocean, is a delicacy in Spain where it may fetch up to €90 per kilogram?
• Romanian euro millionaire businessman and politician Relu Fenechiu was reportedly responsible for the appointment of Justice Minister Tudor Chiuariu and two other cabinet members in 2007?

Facts on topics related to Euro

Pound sterling

• Mussolini's Quota 90 fixed the lira exchange rate against the pound sterling at the prevailing rate from five years earlier, when he assumed power?
• George Gordon Byron drew up a will leaving Nicolò Giraud, his young companion while in Greece, £7,000, but later changed his mind?
• one British bank, as an incentive for university students to open a new account with it, offers free Young Persons Railcards, valid for five years and worth £100?
• Parlophone's "?" trademark, made famous on The Beatles UK records, is actually not the British pound sign, but a Germanic "L" for the Lindstrom in Carl Lindstrom Company?
• Chris Woods cost Queens Park Rangers 250,000 pounds from Nottingham Forest in 1979 even though he had never played a League game before his transfer?
• John Pitre's 1965 visionary art painting, A New Dawn, which was valued at $1.7 million in 1997, was offered in trade for a £1 million house in London in 2004?
• Matford Vic, a two-time winner of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show was purchased at one time for only £2?
• Willie Groves was the first footballer to be transferred for £100 or more?
• a seagull dropping a lit cigarette it had apparently mistaken for food may have caused a fire that wrecked a £750,000 penthouse at Brighton's Van Alen Building?
• a branch of Exeter City Supporters' Trust members helped finance James Norwood's contract at the football club, paying £19 per month?

International status and usage of the euro

• Mayotte situated in the Indian Ocean, Kosovo and Montenegro in the Balkans, and Saint Pierre and Miquelon, off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, have adopted the euro as their national currency?

Eurozone

• only six of the 12 Eurozone member states have not yet issued €2 commemorative coins, and only four have no plans to do so by 2006?

European Central Bank

• the future headquarters of the European Central Bank will be located at the Frankfurt Großmarkthalle (pictured), the former wholesale markets, an example of expressionist architecture by Martin Elsaesser?

European Union

• consumer protection law in the United Kingdom incorporates directives from the European Union?
• Yuri Matochkin, the first post-Soviet governor of Kaliningrad Oblast, favoured closer ties with the European Union?
• although people from the Isle of Man are British citizens, they do not have freedom of movement or employment throughout the European Union?
• between 2005 and 2008, EContentplus funded over 60 digital content projects ‎in the European Union, including DIGMAP and Communia?
• four member states of the European Union have de jure opt-outs and do not participate fully in all common policies?
• the 850-foot (260 m) Commerzbank Tower (pictured) is the tallest building in the European Union?
• the European Union directive about anti-smoking warnings on cigarette packs has led to a surge of sales of cigarette cases?
• the European Union is an example of a security community, in which war has become unthinkable?
• the political party at European level is a type of organization in the European Union eligible to receive funding from the Union, and is recognized in the Maastricht Treaty and the draft European Constitution?
• the highly prolific Carignan wine grape is one of the leading culprits of France's wine lake and that the European Union has resorted to paying farmers to uproot their Carignan vines to help alleviate the problem?