Published by Noemí Jansana on 23rd June 2021
(Sharecast News) - Despite the fact that the decision on whether the eurozone will develop and launch a digital euro is still on a very distant horizon - three or four years ahead, according to the president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde -, the supervisor European monetary policy is developing a theoretical and technological model on which the future currency could be based. And it must be "a complement and not a substitute" for the euro as we know it, said Mayte Arráez, deputy of the market infrastructure support division of the European Central Bank (ECB)