The European Union is considering Bertha von Suttner, a Czech-born pacifist and the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, for its redesigned euro banknotes — reportedly as a candidate for the €200 note, according to Seznam Zprávy.

Suttner was born a countess of the Kinský family, an old Bohemian noble house, and worked as a journalist before becoming one of Europe's most prominent anti-war campaigners. She won the 1905 Nobel Peace Prize, per Seznam Zprávy.

Czechia, the country that produced her, has not adopted the euro. If her portrait appears on the note, it would circulate in German, French and Italian wallets — not her own homeland's.

Hypothesis: the pick fits a pattern of the EU reaching for figures whose biographies cross borders — a Bohemian countess who wrote in German and campaigned across the continent — rather than politicians tied to a single member state's government. Supporting this: her Nobel Prize gives the choice international legibility no purely national hero could offer. Against this: the source material doesn't confirm the EU's actual selection criteria or how many other candidates are on the shortlist, so the pattern remains an inference, not a confirmed design brief.

What to watch: whether Brussels confirms Suttner as a finalist rather than one name among several under discussion, and whether Czech officials or media treat the possible honor as leverage in the country's own debate over eventually joining the eurozone.