Our investigation took into account detailed analyses of payment habits, insights from focus groups, and feedback from you and from key stakeholders. The intermediaries that would distribute the digital euro have in-depth knowledge and unique insights into what users need. They are thus best placed to be the direct counterparts for the individuals, merchants and businesses that would use the digital euro.
Second, the recent strengthening of a widespread sentiment against globalization, along with the political support it has been able to garner, certainly threatens to stall, and in some instances even reverse, the progress towards the economic and financial integration of the global economy achieved over the last decades.