Stablecoins

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Finance
Monetary sovereignty
Europe's race for a digital euro runs through Luxembourg
A US law has accelerated dollar-backed stablecoins, prompting the ECB to push for a digital euro by 2029. Luxembourg, the EU base for PayPal and Amazon and a hub for blockchain-bond experiments, is unusually exposed to the outcome.
By Pierre Hansen18 June 2026
Finance
Eurogroup
Luxembourg at Eurogroup: digital euro, stablecoins and energy prices move onto the same agenda
Luxembourg Finance Minister Gilles Roth joined Eurogroup and informal ECOFIN talks in Nicosia on 22-23 May. Ministers discussed the Commission’s Spring 2026 forecast, Middle East energy-price spillovers, housing and competitiveness, digital-euro progress, stablecoins and the long-term sustainability of public spending.
By Pierre Hansen and Noah Schreiber24 May 2026