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Re:Bulgaria to join euro area on 1 January 2026 by chrismorgan on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @11:08PM (#44506025)
> Yet you wont find any of those subunits complaining about their central bank setting monetary policy.

This is ludicrously wrong of India, and I understand enough of human nature and economics that I’d be surprised if it were true of China, though it may be more suppressed.

Monetary policy is government policy. The ruling party is seldom uniformly popular across their entire domain. Perhaps you’re more familiar with US politics: broadly, rural is Republican, urban is Democrat. In India, the ruling party BJP has a lot of the north, but not so much of the south or east. Accordingly, you should expect dissent from regions with a different state government. And as for socioeconomic disparity between states, rich may complain if they seem to be subsidising poor, poor may complain if they don’t seem to be getting enough attention.

Re:Bulgaria to join euro area on 1 January 2026 by joules77 on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @11:35PM (#44506123)
But is anyone asking for their own local currency or central bank? If not why not?
Re:Bulgaria to join euro area on 1 January 2026 by chrismorgan on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @11:49PM (#44506178)
In some places I gather that pretty much happened during https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Indian_banknote_demonetis.... (I happened to be in India at the time, but where I was it was more just extreme discontent with resignation, rather than threatening fracture.)
Re:Bulgaria to join euro area on 1 January 2026 by ekunazanu on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @02:01AM (#44506748)
The discontentment arose because it was extremely poorly planned, and failed to address the very problems it was 'trying' to solve. It is very unlikely for a state government to implement a local currency and introduce more friction to an already painfully bureaucratic system; it is a politically disastrous move.

> Monetary policy is government policy. The ruling party is seldom uniformly popular across their entire domain.

If by monetary policy you are referring to fiscal policy, you're pretty much spot on. There's always in-fighting between states and lots of complaining about the central/federal government favoring certain states over others.

Re:Bulgaria to join euro area on 1 January 2026 by bluecalm on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @02:24AM (#44506855)
In many places people wouldn't ask because it's completely unrealistic to get it. Regions struggle to get a bit more independence from the central government. An own currency is completely unrealistic. Your argument doesn't work.