🇪🇺 Digital Euro: Sovereignty, Strategy, and the End of Payments as We Knew Them

Europe isn’t just designing a digital currency. It’s building the rails for monetary sovereignty — and rewriting the rules for fintech, crypto, and cross-border finance.

Europe just declared that payment sovereignty is national sovereignty.

The occasion of Piero Cipollone’s Paris speech is a timely opportunity to revisit a fundamental question: Who controls the rails of digital money?

The ECB has now made its clearest case: the digital euro isn’t optional — it’s existential.

Framed as the next phase of European integration…