The Digital Euro As Europe's Backdoor Capital Control System

The Digital Euro As Europe's Backdoor Capital Control System Submitted by Thomas Kolbe The digital euro ranks among the most ambitious projects within the political architecture of the European Union. As the Eurosystem and the EU increasingly merge into identical and integrated political spaces, it can no longer be denied that this CBDC project is primarily a geopolitical power play by Brussels. Yet the euro-CBDC — shorthand for “central bank digital currency” — remains stuck in a...