EU Parliament, Strasbourg, P10 CRE-REV(2025)11-26(3-0547/49-0000).
Herr President.
Thousands of citizens have in the last weeks turned to the peoples’ representatives of the European Parliament. Their demand: No digital euro.
They are right – a digital currency is not progress, it is an instrument of control. The Commission wants to convince us that the digital euro offers security and independence vis-à-vis the U.S.A. and China. In truth, every purchase, every beer with a friend will be tracked. They want the transparent citizen.
We want cash [Bargeld], we want freedom: Anonymous, direct and independent of electricity outages. Cash defends against debanking. He who pays cash, retains the command over his own wallet. It would be democratic if the citizens were allowed to decide by means of a referendum on the introduction of the digital euro. We thus demand anchoring the right to cash in the national constitutions.
…Herr colleague, I believe the decree is only one of many which this house here undertakes so as to in the mid-term abolish cash. That is one of the quite large problems which we have, and precisely against that are we defending ourselves.
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