On Monday 14 July, representatives of the European Commission and the ECB’s Piero Cipollone, once again attempted to respond to MEPs’ concerns about the plan to create a digital euro to complement the single currency in cash form.
For Mr Cipollone, the introduction of a digital euro will even preserve the role of cash, the use of which has fallen between 2019 and 2024 from 68% to 40% in volume and from 40% to 24% in value. “The decline in the use of cash has not been to the benefit of...