A European digital payment solution for any occasion. Rationale and key design choices: • Building the future of the euro, our money. • Responding to evolving payment trends. • Reflecting people’s increasing preference for digital payments while still offering the option to pay with cash. • Making people’s lives easier. • Providing a public digital means of payment that people could use free of charge for any digital payment in the euro area. • Strengthening Europe’s resilience. • Preserving Europe’s strategic autonomy while reducing our dependence on non-European payment providers. A digital form of cash: These ... (full story)