Vice-President of the European Central Bank: deciding whether or not to create a digital euro project by the middle of this year

According to an April 11 press release, Luis de Guindos, Spain's chief financial officer and vice-president of the European Central Bank, said in an interview that the European Central Bank should be, in any way possible, sufficiently capable of meeting challenges. future challenges. . The current objective is to improve our assessments of the functioning of the digital euro euro and can be of great benefit to European citizens and the economy. The board will decide whether to launch the possible digital euro project in mid-2021. According to previous reports, the board of directors of the European Central Bank (ECB), Panetta, will also decide in the coming months whether the board should start work to prepare digital announcements on the euro. If the plan is successful, we are ready to create the digital euro in 5 years.