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- Oct 6, 2022
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The digital euro and the importance of central bank money

Updated: Dec 6, 2022

"The euro is the currency of the euro area. More than 340 million Europeans carry euro banknotes and coins around as cash and pay in euro when they shop online. One of our responsibilities, alongside our main objective of price stability, is to issue euro banknotes and to ensure the smooth functioning of payment systems.

But cash is not the same thing as an electronic payment: one is central bank money and the other is private money."

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