{"id":461791,"date":"2026-08-05T11:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T09:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/08\/05\/euro-digitale-dombrovskis-accettazione-obbligatoria-e-necessaria\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T12:00:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T10:00:44","slug":"digital-euro-dombrovskis-mandatory-acceptance-is-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/08\/05\/digital-euro-dombrovskis-mandatory-acceptance-is-necessary\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital euro, Dombrovskis: &#8220;Mandatory acceptance is necessary&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels \u2013 The &#8220;<span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"it\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">mandatory acceptance of the digital euro&#8221; is &#8220;necessary&#8221;, said the&nbsp;Commissioner for the Economy, Valdis Dombrovskis, in response to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/doceo\/document\/E-10-2026-002402_EN.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">parliamentary question<\/a>. \u201cThe legal basis\u201d for making the digital euro compulsory is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/legal-content\/IT\/TXT\/HTML\/?uri=CELEX:12016E133\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Article 133<\/a> of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU),&nbsp;Dombrovskis said. In other words, the European Commission\u2019s proposal &#8220;<strong>grants the digital euro, as a new, digital form of the single currency, legal tender status,<\/strong>&#8221; in the same way as banknotes and coins, for which acceptance is mandatory.<\/span><\/span> The Commissioner for Economic Affairs insists that the latter is&nbsp;<span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">&#8220;necessary to ensure the effective use of the euro as the EU&#8217;s single currency, which is the very objective of Article&nbsp;133 of the TFEU.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"it\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">The mandatory acceptance will allow the digital euro to enjoy a sufficiently uniform level of acceptance throughout the euro area. In the absence of this acceptance requirement, there would be a risk that the digital euro is accepted only selectively, leading to a fragmented usability of the digital euro, which stands in contrast to the aim of Article&nbsp;133 of the TFEU,\u201d Dombrovskis concludes.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commissioner for the Economy: &#8220;We are granting legal tender status, just as with banknotes and coins.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":436270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705,25774],"tags":[27428,31332,25828,25979],"class_list":["post-461791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-in-brief","tag-euro-digitale-en","tag-euro-en-2","tag-eurozone-en","tag-valdis-dombrovskis-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461792,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461791\/revisions\/461792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}