The EU is working on a #DigitalEuro. The Commission already published its proposal last year, the #EUCouncil is currently discussing its version. But what are they talking about? I looked at working documents from recent months for [@netzpolitik_feed](https://chaos.social/@netzpolitik_feed ).
A few points of discussion:
- The Commission proposed exemptions for transaction monitoring for offline transactions, because there is no anti-money laundering monitoring for cash either and that's the idea behind the offline Digital Euro. The documents show that #Italy, #Portugal and #Lithuania were sceptical with this idea.
- On the other hand, #France recently published a non-paper in which it calls for extending the exemptions to all "proximity" payments, so for example payments in stores. Why? Because users don't care about whether a payment is online or offline, they care about what situation they're trying to use the Euro in.
- Another topic is the "single access point" that the #EuropeanCentralBank #ECB would be able to open under the Commission's proposal. This, the Commission argues, is necessary to allow users to switch between payment providers. #Germany doesn't seem to be a big fan and wanted some further explanations.
https://netzpolitik.org/2024/eu-council-discusses-digital-euro-and-how-much-privacy-should-it-be/
Maximilian Henning /
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