Should crypto assets and initial token offers (ICOs) be regulated at European level? This is the question that MEPs debated on Tuesday 13 November in Strasbourg.
And a majority of MEPs voted in favour. However, looking back two years, the European Parliament had adopted a report stating that a European framework for virtual currencies was, at this stage, not necessary (see EUROPE 11559).
But times have changed. For Markus Ferber (EPP, Germany), virtual currencies have not lived up to...