Visa and Mastercard handle nearly half of Europe’s card payments. The digital euro aims to change that
“Payment systems are not neutral; they are instruments of power,” Gilles Boyer, a French member of the European Parliament, said in June. “We Europeans have had many wake-up calls about our dependence on the U.S. We are fully awake now.” That same day, the European Parliament’s economic affairs committee voted 43 to 14 to back











