[Arthur McGowan]

The local businesses “benefit”?

By selling actual goods to people in exchange for fake money?

It’s appropriate that this Monopoly money is decorated with images of famous economic illiterates.

[stylin19a]

"The town hall receives €35 (£29; $39) per asylum seeker per day from the central government in Rome."

"The refugee services pay the shopkeepers in real euros when the cash arrives."