The European Telecommunications Standards Institute has Developed a standard for phone chargers : pity though it tackles only half of the problem.
A charger has an input and an output: agreeing on the output does not solve the major problem Plagues That all electrical appliances in Europe:
the power plug.
I wonder why, Despi previous attempts, the EU has not been able to force the European electrical manufacturers to agree on a common plug.
We will have a single charger for the phones, but we will have to carry half a dozen adapters for each appliance.
In some cases, UK for instance , the adapter is bulkier and bigger than the device itself, not to mention the charger.
Moreover the adapters are dangerous: they can take fire because of poor contacts creating a resistance, as it happened to me once. I was lucky I was saved by our cat, which noticed the fire inside a kitcken cabinet and started to meow.
It is ironic that Europe has been capable of creating a common currency, but not a common electric plug.
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