EU Policy Topic · ATLAS

Digital euro

0-20: Strong explicit advocacy (sovereignty / anti-USD-card-dominance, calls for moving file forward, both online and offline). 21-40: Supportive but conditional (privacy guarantees, design conditions, supportive technical questions). 41-60: GENUINELY BALANCED — RARE (under 5%); engages BOTH the sovereignty case AND the surveillance/cost critique with substantive treatment of each side; advocates no specific measure; not deferring. Procedural / technical Q / status request / tangential mentions in monetary-policy debates do NOT belong here. 61-80: Moderate critical (cost-benefit / financial-stability / design contradictions; serious doubts but stops short of categorical rejection or surveillance framing). 81-100: Strong explicit opposition (Orwellian / totalitarian / programmability / demand rejection or referendum).

How positions are measured

One poleStrongest support for the EU digital euro (CBDC): implement the regulation; defend monetary sovereignty against US-card networks (Visa/Mastercard) and US-dollar stablecoins; support both online and offline functionality; build public payment rails. Expected defenders: S&D, Renew, Greens/EFA, The Left, plus pro-sovereignty members of EPP and FdI-Italian-conservative wing of ECR.

Other poleStrongest opposition to the EU digital euro: reject the file as a tool of surveillance/programmability of spending, threat to cash, concentration of power in the ECB; demand rejection or referendum. Expected defenders: ESN, PfE, large parts of ECR (esp. Czech, Croatian, Polish), sovereigntist NI MEPs (Slovak, Romanian).

Legislative files on this topic (1)

Establishment of the digital euro
Ongoing

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