About thirty French cities have already implemented the idea of its own local currency. On the order of Paris. The essence of the concept is that residents of a city pay for your purchases is additional to the Euro currency circulating exclusively on a certain area. While sellers, to accept such currency, shall undertake to sell goods of local production.
The introduction of a local currency encourages this method of goods distribution, where between the manufacturer and the customer is only one mediator. This method in turn has a positive effect on the local economy, as it promotes best employment and promotion of local products.
To implement the idea of local currency in the French capital was created the Association “Paris its currency”. According to the founders of the Association, the distrust of the Euro is growing. The plans of the initiators of the project to organize a public hearing, which will be offered different variants of the name of the future currency.
According to Le Figaro, the adjacent Paris Montreuil introduced its own currency in 2014 and continues to subsidize the project. However, a significant positive result is not observed. According to representatives of the city hall participating in the program and an insufficient number of sellers, and the residents of the city have not developed a habit to pay in local currency.
In Ploermel in the region of Brittany has its own currency appeared in December of last year. The original purpose of government was to achieve the number of consumers who pay for purchases with local currency in 400-500 people. After 8 months of experiment, there are about a hundred vendors and around 300 users.
With regard to the implementation of this idea in Paris, the Association has already enlisted the support of some politicians. It remains to obtain the approval of the team Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of the French capital. Negotiations with the Paris entrepreneurs is scheduled for November of this year.
Sergei Vasiliev
