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2024-07-05 12:35:00

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/

2024-06-20 10:29:30

And the adventure continues: Belgium has cancelled today's vote on the chat control proposal because it did not think it could achieve a majority. With that, the Council Presidency passes to Hungary, who will have to cobble together a proposal after July 1.
https://netzpolitik.org/2024/victory-for-now-no-majority-on-chat-control-for-belgium/
#chatcontrol #chat_control #StopChatcontrol

2024-06-20 10:29:30