complement—a digital euro—becomes increasingly necessary. Accordingly, the article concludes that the ECB is both entitled and … obliged de lege lata to issue a digital euro on the basis of Article 128 TFEU. It further explains that neither tangible cash … nor a digital euro can simultaneously be used as instruments in themselves to maintain price stability …

In July 2021 the Eurosystem decided to launch the investigation phase of the digital euro project, which aims to … provide euro area citizens with access to central bank money in an increasingly digitalised world. While a digital euro could … of uncertainty surrounding the design of a potential digital euro, its demand and the prevailing environment in which it …

Austria, Finland and Sweden became members of the EU in 1995. This paper examines how support for the euro and trust in …. Support for the euro in the two euroarea members Austria and Finland has remained high and relatively stable since the … physical introduction of the new currency nearly 20 years ago, while the euro crisis significantly reduced support for the euro …