What we need from this digital euro is anonymity just like the cash it's meant to replace. But nobody is talking about that.

No fees for small transactions also means that merchants will be more willing to accept those form of payment, they have to accept but also not so happy to do so at the moment because of the fees eating on their margins.

Why is there a fee at all? This is all sponsored by taxes anyway.

so multiple tiny payments instead of a big one to avoid the fees?

The worse is that the amount of fee that will be requested will not be based on the technical cost of the operation, but for sure they will be there to remunerate "banks" that should not be needed anymore but that will still want to have their part of the cake.

And globally their have the bargaining power because indirectly their are the gang that are in command of the banking regulators in the end...

Is it still exclusive to stupidphones if you want to pay online?

Regime-aligned media such as von der Leyen's euronews should be marked as such.