Digital Euro

11/04/2022

Digitalization has transformed many aspects of our lives, including the way we make payments. The digital euro is being valued by the ECB and the national central banks of the euro area, and would be an electronic form of central bank money that citizens and businesses could use without replacing, but complementing, cash.

You will recall that the European Central Bank launched, last October 2020, a public consultation on the digital euro and in April 2021 published a report analysing it and drawing conclusions.

Now, as part of the research phase of a digital euro, it publishes a report on citizens' payment preferences and their attitude towards the digital euro.

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