The European Union is due on Wednesday to publish draft rules that give legal underpinnings for a digital euro, if the European Central Bank decided to issue one in coming years.
Exactly — this seems to be about reducing our dependence on large financial corporations (none of whom are European), who currently take a cut off all out online spending. With real world cash they can’t do that. Now it seems we’ll have a publicly-managed digital equivalent of the cash system (I see a lot of ‘ifs’ in that article, let’s see how it goes).
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My first language is English, so I still use mainly English language news sources, now with a few German mixed in. After the first two, these just have European news mixed in with others, not Europe-focused:
EU to set out legal underpinnings for a digital euro (www.reuters.com)
The European Union is due on Wednesday to publish draft rules that give legal underpinnings for a digital euro, if the European Central Bank decided to issue one in coming years.
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