“PASOK MEP Nikos Papandreou has long been expressed in favor of the position that has been expressed by the reasons that dictate his creation digital euro (Digital Euro), at the meeting of the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Policy Committee (ECON), President of the European Central Bank (ECB) Christine Lagarde, according to a statement.

According to the announcement, Mr Papandreou emphasized in his speech “his strong view that the digital euro willA greatly enhance the security and sovereignty in Europeas citizens of the Union will not depend on payment systems – which although private – belong to third countries.

He also emphasized that beyond any potentially high -cost can be promoted by the various aspects as an argument for the delay of digital euro, one of the main reasons for the fastest possible creation of it to be as quickly as possible. Security and the dominance of transactions

His arguments agreed, the European Central Bank manager notes in the statement, stressing that “his position is absolutely correct and added that European citizens are currently paying for existing payment systems that will not exist with the digital euro”.