"In a move that wasn’t expected so soon in 2024, the European Central Bank said Wednesday it is ready to pay €1.2 billion to partners in the private sector to help develop a digital version of the euro."
They are freaking out to develop this ASAP. So much so that they are hiring Amazon to do it for them. The hypocrisy is through the roof as they claimed this whole digital Euro idea is to escape from foreign big tech giants like Amazon controlling the finances of their citizens.
https://www.dlnews.com/articles/regulation/ecb-to-pay-more-than-one-billion-euros-for-digital-euro/
