Less than period when the consultation process’ begin, the prevalent mood in the comments section appears quite negative.
In the but two weeks since monetary unitpean|the ecu|the eu} Commission opened its “Digital euro for the EU” initiative up to public consultation, more than 11,000 people and organizations have left their feedback on the web site. The feedback section are going to be open till June 14.
Besides the open-ended comments section on the website, there's a targeted consultation form that aims to collect data from the business representatives, authorities and specialists concerning such aspects of the potential digital euro as privacy and knowledge protection, Anti-Money wash (AML) and Combatting the finance of terrorism (CFT) rules, the impact on money stability and users’ needs and expectations.
The consultation method predates legislative thought of the digital euro, that is anticipated to be regular in 2023.
As crypto advocate patrick Hansen noted, within the last year’s spherical of consultations on the digital euro, the majority of respondents spoke get into favor of payments being a private matter. Despite that, the {european|the ecu|the eu} Commission’s Commissioner for Economy Paolo Gentiloni explicit that “a completely anonymous digital euro isn't desirable.”
( David Attlee, Cointelegraph, 2022 )