Europe Votes to KILL Dollar Payment Dominance - Digital Euro Approved, Visa/Mastercard 61% ENDING

 

 

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Europe just took another major step toward financial sovereignty. The European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee has approved the digital euro — a sovereign ECB-backed currency designed to reduce dependence on American-owned payment infrastructure. 

 

💶 The digital euro would allow eurozone citizens to hold, send, and receive central bank money through dedicated wallets. 

 

💳 Visa and Mastercard currently account for 61% of euro-area card payments and nearly all cross-border card transactions. 

 

🇪🇺 The goal is not to ban American payment companies, but to ensure Europe has a sovereign alternative. 

 

🔐 Offline digital euro payments are designed to work more like cash, with stronger privacy protections than existing digital payments. 

 

🏦 Commercial banks will distribute wallets, but the ECB will provide the underlying infrastructure. 

 

🌍 The digital euro joins Wero and ECB repo lines as part of Europe’s emerging payment sovereignty stack. 

 

⚠️ The prediction: Visa and Mastercard’s share of European payments falls below 50% within five years of launch.

 

 

 Source:   House Of El