Tag: Digitalization
The infrastructure of the multipolar world is not only physical but also, and increasingly, digital.
The EP has already rejected the mass surveillance regime once, so the EPP has now forced a second vote, knowing there won’t be enough MEPs on the last day before summer recess to stop it.
Brussels frames the digital euro, age verification, and Chat Control as separate solutions to real issues, but together they highlight who controls the digital infrastructure shaping everyday life in Europe.
The European Central Bank (ECB) scored a parliamentary breakthrough on Tuesday. The European Parliament’s economic affairs (ECON) committee endorsed its long-gestating plan for a digital euro, and in doing so paved the way for a central-bank-backed electronic payment instrument meant to loosen the eurozone’s grip on US credit card networks.
