Once again, Eurocrats gaslight the public into accepting dystopian surveillance and control mechanisms.

They love to make Trump a boogieman, too.

The bureaucrats arguing in favor of this seem to conflate standardized payment gateways with the digitalization of euro itself, which has its only real selling point in being 'traceable cash'.

To secure strategic autonomy and break the MasterCard/VisaCard duopoly in the EU - as these bureaucrats wish - either build up a European alternative or regulate something like Austria's EPS for the entire EU-area into existence.

> Digital Euro 'only defence' against deepening US control of money

And who, they think, control the OSs and apps where those money would be processed ? (Microsoft, Google, Apple, Linux)